Tigerfish Aviation Pty Ltd (ACN 089 640 504) is based in Adelaide South Australia. Adelaide has a substantial defence and technology based industry providing an intellectual base for the program and long term links to international aerospace industry.

Tigerfish was established in 1999 to undertake R&D on the retracting float concept that was granted a US patent in 2005.

Support for the work has come from

• The Sir Ross and Sir Keith Smith Fund
• South Australian Government
• The University of Adelaide
• The local community
• Private seed investment

The company officers are

• Managing Director - Saxon Rudduck, Designer and Inventor
• Engineering Director - Alan Smith, Aeronautical Engineer
• Commercialization Director – Dickory Rudduck, Technologist