Dimensions
- Length of flight deck: 1,092 ft (332.8 m)
- Width of flight deck: 257 ft (78.3 m)
- Height keel to mast: 244 ft (74.4 m, equal to 24-story building)
- Area of flight deck: 4.5 acres
- Weight of carrier: 97,000 tons
- Type: Nuclear reactor
- Number of reactors: 2
- Maximum speed: More than 30 knots (55+ km/h)
- Number of screws: 4 (5 blades each)
- Weight of screws: 66,200 lbs each (30027.8 kg each)
- Number of catapults: 4
- Number of aircraft elevators: 4
- Size of Air Wing: 80+ tactical aircraft
- Builder: Newport News Shipbuilding Co.
- Contract Date: March 29, 1988
- Keel laid: March 13, 1991
- Christened: November 11, 1993
- Commissioned: December 9, 1995
- Crew: 6,200 (including air wing)
- Meals served daily: 18,600
- Number of compartments: 2,700
- Number of anchors: 2 (From USS FORRESTAL (CV-59))
- Weight of anchors: 30 tons each
- A/C plant capacity: 2,900 tons (enough to service 950 homes)
- Distillation plant capacity: 400,000 gals (1,800,000 liters, enough to serve 2000 homes)
- Number of telephones: 2,000
- Tons of structural steel: More than 60,000 tons
- Miles of cable and wiring: over 900
- Number of light fixtures: more than 30,000
- Required technical manuals: A stack as high as the Washington Monument (555 ft = 169 m)
- Bed mattresses: If lined up end-to-end, they would stretch more than nine miles.
- Sheets: 28,000
- Pillow Cases: 14,000
- Cost: $3.5 billion; projected service life: 50 years
