It can accommodate 80 aircraft and has a 4.5 acre flight deck, using four 3,880 square foot elevators to move the planes between the flight deck and hangar bay. With a combat load, the carrier displaces more than 97,000 tons, far larger than the largest cruise ships, and can carry more than 6,000 crew members. It can distill 400,000 gallons of water and serves 18,000 meals a day. The ship uses two 30-ton anchors. Each link of the anchor chain weighs 360 pounds.
Mail accounts using the first shipboard fully fiber-optic local area network.