Tim Hibbetts's answer to If a small private plane attempted to land on an aircraft carrier that...

Every pilot dreams of this. Probably more for the cool factor than anything. My short answer is the landing distance part would be easy. During flight training, we all have to practice short field landings in our C172's. I think the shortest I made was just past the numbers (~350ft.) with a good headwind. I know folks who have done better. So, the width and length of the flight deck isn't the issue. It's the rocking and rolling of the boat. Landing on an airstrip that doesn't move is very different than landing on a moving ship. Add that factor and things get tricky quick. The issue is that the aircraft designed for carrier landings have super strong landing gear to take the impact of flying the plane into the deck. Us small plan guys stall the plane to settle on the strip with as little impact as possible. However, getting permission would probably stop this idea from ever happening. Wait, do you know a carrier skipper that would let me try???

I think it was actually done 25-30 years ago on a larger Caribbean based US Carrier... when a family radioed they had an emergency and they put a smaller twin engine down on the Flight-deck with the Carrier going full bore into the wind the aircraft used mist of the flight deck but had room to spare... something to do with a medical problem...
hell I've been married and divorced twice since then so My Mind is not to so good...

A South Vietnamese pilot landed an O-1 Bird Dog (a Cessna 305) on the Midway during Operation Frequent Wind, the evacuation of Saigon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Chambers#Operation_Frequent_Wind