USS Reagan Model Ship: Extremely Detailed
and Finely Crafted
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CVN-76 uses only high-quality grade and premium materials by our
renowned master craftsmen and accomplished team. This ensures that
each CVN 76 model ship is precisely based on the exact
blueprint of the original USS Reagan vessel.
Our vast selections of scale model ships are virtually huge to
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including the weaponries, armament, guns and hulls are extremely
accurate and precise like the original CVN-76. This
ship model will fascinate anyone who gazes at it for its
remarkable and exceptional quality. CVN 76 also comes with an
extremely durable base stand engraved with the ships official
insignia.
USS Ronald Reagan CVN-76 History:
USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) is the ninth and largest Nimitz class
nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. She was laid down on February 12,
1998; launched on March 4, 2001; christened by Nancy Reagan; and
commissioned on July 12, 2003. She is first ship of the United
States Navy to be named for the late President Ronald Reagan.
Traditionally, very few ships of the Navy were named after a person
who was alive at the time of the christening, but recently the
number has been increasing. President Reagan was not able to attend
the launch or the commissioning due to Alzheimer's disease.
Ronald Reagan displaces approximately 95,000 tons of water fully
loaded, has a top speed of over 30 knots, and can sail for over 20
years before needing to refuel. She is nearly as long as the Empire
State Building is tall at 1,092 feet. The ship carries more than
5,500 sailors and over 80 aircraft.
During her maiden deployment, Ronald Reagan conducted operations
in support of the continuing war on terror. From January 4 to July
6, 2006, she was at the western Pacific and Persian Gulf,
participating in Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, and
Exercise Valiant Shield 2006. She was awarded the 2006 Battle for
West Coast carriers.
January 27 to April 20, 2007 saw Ronald Reagan on a three-month
western Pacific deployment to fill in for USS Kitty Hawk which
underwent scheduled maintenance in Japan. On December 15, 2007, she
answered a distress call from a cruise ship off the coast of Baja
California. A teenager with a ruptured appendix was airlifted by an
SH-60 helicopter to the carrier, where an emergency appendectomy was
performed by Navy medical personnel.
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