User blog comment:Headlessnewt/Missing Ships: A Much Delayed Addition/@comment-27330118-20180714033018/@comment-9676492-20180720211946

Well, historically, Enterprise was a Yorktown-class, built after Sara but before Intrepid. Intrepid was an Essex, and those were *huge* carriers for the time, longer even than the Yamato-class, though only half their displacement (meaning Essex weighed about as much as Nagato, Ise and Fuso and substantially more than Kongo).

Saratoga was also in the same boat as Akagi, being a redesigned Battlecrusier, and her design was limited by that, where Enterprise was a purpose-designed carrier like the Dragons and the Cranes.

If I had to guess at numbers, given that Sara's final final form has an airgroup of 93, 15 more than her historical capacity and Intrepid Kai has 112, 12-22 larger than her historical form, Enterprise's historical group of 90 would probably get pushed around to 95-100, of course, I have *no idea* how they would split that number up into slots to make her different from the other carriers, but just looking at it, I suspect she'd wind up looking quite similar to Zuikaku K2 statwise.