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The '''Estia class''' is a class of {{wp|light aircraft carrier}}s developed by [[Burgundie]] in the 1950s following the production of the [[Faramount-class carrier|Faramount class]]. Initially designed as a small {{Wp|fleet carrier}}, the class was constructed in two flights in the 1950s and 1960s, and constituted the primary naval aviation force of the [[Burgoignesc Security Forces]] for the majority of the [[Occidental Cold War]] and all of [[Operation Kipling]]. The award of the entire class's production to [[O’Shea Container Shipping]] was broadly considered the final blow to competition between O'Shea and rival corporation [[Lansing Lines]] for monopoly over the major shipbuilding industry in [[Burgundie]]. The aircraft carriers served with distinction from the 1960s-the late 1990s in a variety of roles which reflected three major shifts in military doctrine, presiding over the end of the Age of Battleships, the Missile Age, and the early days of the [[Metaorizonal]] Age. Of the 11 ships built in the class all but three were scrapped. One, the Estia is preserved as a museum ship, the last two built the Boniface I are laid up in ordinary as part of the ready reserve fleet of the sea lift command.