Bill Champan (founder)
Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

This private museum began in the late 1960's by Port Moresby resident, Bill Champan who owned two Chemist shops in Port Moresby. This organization collected WWII aviation relics in the area and displayed them. It was with this museum that Bruce Hoy began volunteering, who later became the first curators of the PNG Modern History Department's War Museum.

P-47D "Sweetwater Swatter" Serial Number 42-8066
Salvaged from a swamp outside Moresby 1967-69

After it dispanding in the late 1970's, and PNG became an indepenent country with its own museum, much of their collection went to the new PNG War Museum Modern History department.