Swamp Ghost...
Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:06 pm
Any news about the status of this B-17?
Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:32 am
News on this has been pretty quiet. Anyone got anything?
Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:02 am
I heard PNG was trying to get it back. No surprise in that.
Mon Sep 04, 2006 10:56 am
So..........if the PNG gets the airframe back....what are they gonna do with it....stick it back in the weeds and swamp to rot ??
Paul
Paul
Mon Sep 04, 2006 11:04 am
Are we going to go through all this again in this forum???
Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:48 pm
talked w/justin taylin recently, he seemed bummed.
Mon Sep 04, 2006 6:32 pm
tom d. friedman wrote:talked w/justin taylin recently, he seemed bummed.
Why is that?
Could that be good news for the B-17?
Tim
Edited just because...
Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:45 pm
only my opinion from his e-mail. i'd prefer not to go into speculation. he's high profile with swamp ghost, & his website, he's a good guy, & i don't want this to stir up a beehive.
Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:27 am
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.......
http://www.theswampghost.com/news/pac/index.html
regards
Mark Pilkington
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.......
http://www.theswampghost.com/news/pac/index.html
regards
Mark Pilkington