A January release from Trumpeter is a 1/350th USS Langley AV-3, along with separate upgrade sets.

USS Langley AV-3 

Scale - 1/350th

Item No - 05632

USS Langley AV-3 upgrade sets 

Scale - 1/350th

Item No - 06647

USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (AC-3), and also the US Navy's first turbo-electric-powered ship.

On 25 October 1936, she put into Mare Island Navy Yard, California for overhaul and conversion to a seaplane tender. 

Langley completed conversion on 26 February 1937 and was assigned hull number AV-3 on 11 April.

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