List of aircraft carriers by configuration

The list of aircraft carriers by configuration contains active aircraft carriers organized by the specific configuration of aircraft carrier designs. This list excludes seaplane carriers or helicopter carriers.

Carrier configurations
There are three main configurations of aircraft carrier in service in the worlds navies:
 * Catapult Assisted Take-Off Barrier Arrested Recovery (CATOBAR)
 * Short Take-Off Barrier Arrested Recovery (STOBAR)
 * Short Take-Off Vertical Landing (STOVL)

Navies with CATOBAR carriers

 * Chinese Navy
 * Type 003 – under construction
 * French Navy
 * FS Charles de Gaulle
 * Indian navy
 * INS Vishal – planned (in design phase)
 * United States Navy
 * Nimitz-class aircraft carrier
 * USS Nimitz (CVN-68)
 * USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69)
 * USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70)
 * USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71)
 * USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72)
 * USS George Washington (CVN-73)
 * USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74)
 * USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75)
 * USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)
 * USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77)
 * Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier *(equipped with EMALS)
 * USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) *

Navies with STOBAR carriers

 * Chinese Navy
 * Type 001
 * Liaoning
 * Type 002
 * Shandong
 * Indian Navy
 * Modified Kiev class
 * INS Vikramaditya
 * Vikrant class
 * INS Vikrant – In Trials
 * IAC-2 (Planned)
 * Russian Navy
 * Kuznetsov class
 * Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov

Navies with STOVL carriers

 * Italian Navy
 * Cavour
 * Giuseppe Garibaldi
 * Trieste – under construction


 * Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force
 * Izumo class – to be converted to operate F-35B aircraft
 * Royal Navy
 * Queen Elizabeth class
 * HMS Queen Elizabeth
 * HMS Prince of Wales
 * Spanish Navy
 * SNS Juan Carlos I
 * United States Navy
 * Wasp class
 * America class