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Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō

Aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 15, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Hōshō was the world's first commissioned ship that was built as an aircraft carrier, and the first aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN). Commissioned in 1922, the ship was used for testing carrier aircraft operations equipment, techniques, such as take-offs and landings, and carrier aircraft operational methods and tactics. The ship provided valuable lessons and experience for the IJN in early carrier air operations. Hōshō's superstructure and other obstructions to the flight deck were removed in 1924 on the advice of experienced aircrews.

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“Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō” enters the record as aircraft carrier of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Japanese, aircraft and carrier can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.