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Whenever this subject comes up, about 80–90% of the answers you are going to get are wrong. It's ridiculous because it is so simple but people try to make it something it is not.The general gist of the answers will be correct, but the explanations of why will be wrong.CVN-69 does indeed refer to USS Dwight D Eisenhower. The second Nimitz class Carrier.69 is the hull number for the ship and CVN indicates that the ship is classified as a Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carrier.What people get wrong is trying to explain CVN as an acronym. Each letter being the abbreviation of individual words. This is what is wrong.You have several answers already that try wrongly to claim that CVN means Carrier Vessel Nuclear.No… it doesn't. The individual letters are not abbreviations for three separate words. The three letters are taken as a whole to mean Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carrier.The letters together are a SYMBOL, not an abbreviation.CV means Aircraft Carrier, not Carrier Vessel.The V for the Symbol for carrier comes from the French word “Voler”. To fly.CA was the Symbol for Cruiser.During the birth and infancy of the Carriers, they were invisioned as Aviation Cruisers. So they took the C and the V for Voler and made the Carrier Symbol to be CV.The basic hull types were all double consonants.DD for Destroyer.BB for Battleship.FF for Frigate.SS for Submarine.As more types of ships were created the symbols became widely varied.There are several suffixes added to the base hull symbol. N denotes that the ship is nuclear powered. But N is not a direct abbreviation for the word Nuclear.G denotes that the vessel has as its primary weapon, long range precision guided missiles. Be that an area defense anti-air missile system, or long range cruise missiles.So…an SS is a Submarine. Not a Submersible Ship.SSN is a Nuclear Powered Submarine. Not a Submersible Ship Nuclear.SSGN would be a nuclear powered guided missile submarine. The Russians have a number of subs of this type, meant for making massive missile attacks against a US carrier battlegroup. The US had no such subs until the first four Ohio class SSBNs were converted to SSGNs.Speaking of... SSBN is a nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine. An SSB would be a conventional ballistic missile submarine. The US never had any such subs, but that would be their symbol if we did.In short… these letters are not individual abbreviations for individual words. The letters are a symbol taken as a whole to refer to a specific ship classification.Because the letters chosen for the symbols were chosen for ease of memorization and are related to the intended meaning of the symbol, they do appear to be an abbreviation, an acronym. But they are not.Because of this, many people have tried to “backronym” meaning into the individual letters. For example, claiming CVN means Carrier Vessel Nuclear, when in fact it doesn't.Another example is claiming that FF, which means Frigate… stands for Fast Frigate.It doesn't.So in direct answer. With the code CVN-69…The first part is a Hull Classification Symbol which tells you the type of ship. The second part is the hull number.Regarding hull numbers. There is some misconception and false information about them as well. You have several answers claiming the hull numbers are all sequential and thus CVN-69 is the 69th carrier built.While that does happen to be true in the case of full sized Fleet Carriers (CVs and CVNs) and does not include the Light carriers and escort carriers (CVL, CVE)… It does not hold true for all hull numbers.Hull numbers will be sequential within a single class of ship (class being all ships of a certain hull classification which are built to the same plans). But there can be gaps in the sequence between the ships of one class and the ships of the preceding or following class. Sometimes this is because a class of ships was approved and ordered but then cancelled before construction. This happened a lot post-WW2.Other times they are done for political reasons.SSN-21 is not the 21st attack submarine built for the Navy. The previous class of SSN was the Los Angeles class. It went from SSN-688 (Los Angeles) to SSN-773 (Cheyenne).The new Seawolf class should have started with SSN-774. But Seawolf was the new advanced submarine for the 21st Century. So they started the hull numbers with 21.After the overly expensive Seawolf class was cancelled after only three subs (SSN-21, SSN-22, SSN-23), they started again with the Virginia class with SSN-774, USS Virginia.Hull numbers can use the same number on different types of ships, but do not repeat within the same type. CV-63 is USS Kitty Hawk. BB-63 is USS Missouri. There is also a CG-63. USS Cowpens.But there can never be two CG-63's. There can never be two CV-63's.A Ship's name can also be reused. But never at the same time. My first ship was USS Halsey CG-23. She was a Guided Missile Cruiser of the Leahy class. While she was in commission as an active warship there could never be another USS Halsey. But after she was decommissioned and scrapped, another warship was given the name. USS Halsey DDG-97. An Arleigh Burke class Guided Missile Destroyer.So the combination of hull classification symbol and hull number becomes a singularly unique identifier for a single specific ship of the US Navy.If I say I served on Enterprise, am I meaning the old and famous WW2 carrier, or the world's first Nuclear Carrier?If I say I served on Halsey, am I meaning the Leahy Cruiser or the Burke Destroyer?But when I say CG-23, that can only be one ship. The Leahy class cruiser named Halsey.Hope this clears things up.For everyone else…STOP CLAIMING THAT THE HULL CLASSIFICATION SYMBOLS ARE ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS!!!!!EDIT: The OP question asker is a QPP participant flooding Quora with insincere low quality cookie cutter questions such as “what does (insert object here) stand for?” And then just spams the same question with a different object.All QPP spammers get blocked and muted for the future.

Has one-All decommissioned ex military aircraft operation is subject to the specific "letter of authorization" which is issued by the operator's local Flight Standards District Office ( FSDO). In that letter the operational flight radius is specified - flight beyond which requires prior authorization.In any event , ALL flight activities must comply with the "Experimental for Exhibition Only" certification into which almost all ex- military aircraft are categorized. This usually precludes "personal transportation" as a practical justification - and these aircraft ( the classic jets) are totally impractical vehicles for personal transport - at ~ $1000/ hour fuel burn alone.

A couple of years ago I found a USB key on the stairs to a railway station. I was of course curious what was on it but didn't want to plug it into my PC. Luckily I work in IT, so getting an old decommissioned PC was easy (and of course it was offline). Turned out it contained multiple letters on it among other stuff, so I knew where to send it to give it back to its happy owner.