Interesting findings from the PNG Swamp Ghost Inquiry
SALE AND EXPORT OF THE SWAMP GHOST
AIRCRAFT AND WAR SURPLUS MATERIALS
1. The Public Accounts Committee finds that the on all the evidence before it, the Contract between Aero Archaeology LLC and the PNG National Museum & Art Gallery is a Contract of Sale of a B17 aircraft known as the Swamp Ghost.
2. The effect of that contract is to pass title of the Swamp Ghost Aircraft to a foreign buyer. 100% of the State’s ownership of this aircraft wreck has been sold by the PNG National Museum & Art Gallery.
3. The Public Accounts Committee finds that the PNG National Museum & Art Gallery has no power to sell the swamp Ghost Aircraft, or deal with War Surplus Materials.
4. The PNG National Museum & Art Gallery cannot enter Contracts to bind the State. It is a Corporation in its own right but is not an agent of or representative of the State – particularly in respect of the sale, salvage, removal or export of State-owned property.
5. The State of Papua New Guinea still owns the Swamp Ghost and no effective Contract of Sale, salvage, removal or export has been formed nor could the Museum do so.
6. Any purported contract between MARC and the PNG National Museum & Art Gallery to purchase and remove the Swamp Ghost Aircraft was illegal, unenforceable and invalid.
7. We also find that a previous attempt to export the aircraft was refused by the Government of the day.
8. The assignment of that contract form MARC to Aero Archaeology LLC may or may not have been valid, but certainly the Museum had no power to approve the assignment.
9. The assignment of the benefit of the Contract from MARC to Aero Archaeology Limited has not affected in any way the position of the State of Papua New Guinea.
and lots more…….
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regards
Mark Pilkington
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