aircraft carrier

warship primarily designed to carry, support, launch, and recover naval aircraft at sea
Intangible ship_type Q17205
aircraft carrier
Airman Robert Baker, U.S. Navy · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Summary

aircraft carrier is a ship type[1]. It ranks in the top 0.63% of ship type entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (24,353 views/month, #2 of 315).[2]

Key Facts

  • Subclass of: aviation vessel[3], warship[4], ship[5]
  • Commons category: Aircraft carriers[6]
  • Said to be the same as: aviamatka[7]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Aircraft carriers[8]
  • Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, vol. 1[9]
  • History of topic: history of the aircraft carrier[10]
  • Has list: list of aircraft carriers[11]
  • Exact match: http://wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/02687172-n[12]
  • Designed to carry: military aircraft[13]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[14]

Why It Matters

aircraft carrier has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] It is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0200446-letadlove-lode
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0200446-letadlove-lode, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259493|batch #259493]]"
  2. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Designed to carry → military aircraft
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) → ['3921087', '1429753']
    Aliases → —
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ Yso id: 9831, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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