Uploaded by smike 05/09/2008 19:16:54

This is the very first us aircraft carrier made after blue prints from 1922...
Named after Samuel Pierpont Langley (1834-1906), American astronomer, physicist, and pioneer in the development of heavier-than-air craft. 
Built as a collier and named Jupiter (Collier # 3), she was the first surface ship propelled by electric motors. 
Conversion to an aircraft carrier authorized, and design work completed, in July 1919. 
Converted into the first US aircraft carrier at the Norfolk Navy Yard. 
Renamed Langley, 21 April 1920. Reclassified as an aircraft carrier and redesignated CV-1. 
Converted to a seaplane tender at the Mare Island Navy Yard (25 October 1936-26 February 1937). Redesignated AV-3, 21 April 1937. 
Fate: Bombed by Japanese aircraft, 27 February 1942, and scuttled by her escorting destroyers, about 75 miles south of Tjilatjap, Java.

Aircrafts onboard total 34.. (14 Douglas DT Torpedo Bombers and 20 Aeromarine 39B Bombers).. 
NOTE: this model has 22 aircrafts / 20 life boats / 14 cranes / 1 elevator / 2 heavy cannons / 26 machineguns / 2 ankers / 2 chimnyes + 2 screws...
So thats why the file size is so big...(as a SKP file it only fills 2 mb)..