Tinny, I seem to recall that Richard was involved with that Spitfire as well as the numerous P39's and P40's that were temporarily stored in the bakery yard. I believe that a lot of them came from Tsili-Tsili. They were salvaged by Monty Armstrong and were eventually exported to the USA. There wasn't much left of the Spitfire as corrosion had claimed much of the aluminium.
The deal was for every 2 aircraft exported to the USA, a complete restored aircraft was to be returned to PNG which never happened.