If it wasn’t going to be restored, I can’t think of a better place for it.

I think the NMUSAF would have also been an appropriate place for it “as is” but the Pacific museum is just as good and as appropriate.

It is also pity PNG itself is not advanced enough to have its own museum display space for such relics to be recovered, preserved and displayed but clearly it has some more fundamental issues to focus on, and such items are of great risk of being scrapped or scavenged to extinction otherwise.

regards

Mark Pilkington