Owners - Bruno Carnovale
Partner - Ian Whitney
Lawyer - Phil Dwyer
Melbourne, Victoria Australia

(No association with the RAAF WWII squadron) The owner, Bruno Carnovale has declined to be interviewed to date.

The group's motto is "preserving yesterday's history for tomorrow".  The group has no museum location, webpage or any facilty open to the public. Involved in several restorations of WWII aircraft, and was active in recovering aircraft from Papua New Guinea since 1998, with an export permit grantedby the PNG  Museum for wartime scrap in parts of the Finchafen area. In 2002, thousands saw their work, when the truck loaded with exported airframes three P-47s and a P-38 was spotted on the Melborne highway during rush hour. Most of their salvages were then exported to the United States, to WestPac. Reportedly, Paul Allen's Flying Heritage Collection is now the owner of these aircraft.

Finschafen Recoveries
Three Thunderbolts and two Lightning were recovered in November 1999. The wreckage was dug up from Finchafen, and one P-38 from Morobe Province. These relics were containered at Lae, and shipped to Melbourne, Australia. In 2002, they were ransported by road thru Melbourne, and then containered and shipped to California, along with (unconfirmed) P-38F 42-1265 and three Thunderbolts, reportedly P-47 42-75284, P-47 42-22521, P-47 42-8074.