fleet comprised 10 fleet carriers, but that number increased back to 11 with the commissioning of Gerald R. Ford in July 2017. The House Armed Services Seapower subcommittee on 24 July 2007, recommended seven or eight new carriers (one every four years). However, the debate has deepened over budgeting for the $12–14.5 billion (plus $12 billion for development and research) for the 100,000-tonne Gerald R. Ford-class carrier (estimated service 2017) compared to the smaller $2 billion 45,000-tonne s, which are able to deploy squadrons of F-35Bs. The first of this class, , is now in active service with another, , and 9 more are planned. In a report to Congress in February 2018, the Navy stated it intends to maintain a "12 CVN force" as part of its 30-year acquisition plan. Aircraft carriers in preservation Current museum carriers A few aircraft carriers have been preserved as museum ships. They are: in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina in New York City in Alameda, California in Corpus Christi, Texas in San Diego, California in Tianjin, China in Nantong, China Former museum carriers was moored as a museum in Mumbai from 2001 to 2012, but was never able to find an industrial partner and was closed that year. She was scrapped in 2014. was acquired for preservation and moored in New Orleans from 1990 to 2002, but due to an embezzlement scandal, funding for the museum never materialized and the ship was scrapped in 2002. Future museum carriers has a preservation campaign to bring her to the West Coast of the United States as the world's first amphibious assault ship museum. See also Airborne aircraft carrier Aviation-capable naval vessels Carrier-based aircraft Lily and Clover Merchant aircraft carrier Mobile offshore base Project Habakkuk Seadrome Submarine aircraft carrier Unsinkable aircraft carrier Related lists List of aircraft carriers List of aircraft carriers in service List of aircraft carriers by configuration List of aircraft carriers of the Second World War List of sunken aircraft carriers List of amphibious warfare ships List of carrier-based aircraft List of Canadian Navy aircraft carriers List of aircraft carriers of the People's Liberation Army Navy (China) List of current French Navy aircraft carriers List of German aircraft carriers List of aircraft carriers of the Indian Navy List of Italian Navy aircraft carriers List of aircraft carriers of the Japanese Navy List of aircraft carriers of Russia and the Soviet Union List of active