Carrier Ready — 7 museum-grade prints that set the mood. VF-31 Tomcatters adopted Felix the Cat as squadron mascot decades before the Tomcat era, and the yellow roundel on the tail fin became one of the most recognisable markings in US Navy fighter aviation. The Tomcatters were the Navy's last operational F-14 squadron, disestablished after the Tomcat's 2006 retirement — a final-cruise CVW-8 Theodore Roosevelt deployment remains a reference point for profile-print collectors hunting AJ-coded Tomcats from the type's closing chapter. VFA-143 traces lineage through Corsairs, Demons, Phantoms, and Tomcats before the 2005 transition to the F/A-18E Super Hornet — one of the U. S. VFA-147 Argonauts — named for Jason and the Argonauts of Greek mythology — was established in February 1967 and flew A-7 Corsair IIs, F/A-18C Hornets, and F/A-18E Super Hornets before becoming the first operational U. S.