Drama Family TV Movie
Billie Dupree is a flight instructor at an old Texas airport. When a young girl in a wheelchair finds the airport by watching gliders fly, she decides she wants to learn how to fly. Dupree teaches her to fly with some special controls compensating for her handicap. Koup Trenton runs an aircraft repair service and is trying desperately to get an old airplane back in the air. The three, together, put the young girl and the old plane up in the air.
Directed by
Ron Howard
Written by
Nancy Sackett
Bette Davis
Billie Dupree
Marion Ross
Natalie Ward
Clu Gulager
Steve Ward
Howard Hesseman
Koup Trenton
Rance Howard
Pilot #2
Irma P. Hall
Mrs. Sinclair
Cheryl Howard
Greta Blackburn
Miss Russell
Ben Marley
Scott Billings
Bill Thurman
Pilot #1
Jessie Lee Fulton
Secretary
Lisa Whelchel
Lisa Ward
Suzy Barbieri
Julie Ward
Mark Wheeler
Mr. Olsen
Rhonda Minton
Stephanie
Gene Pietragallo
Jason
Jeff Nicholson
Theatre Usher
Kate Finlayson
Nurse
Rusty McCaskey
Boy in Class
Bill Blackwood
Self
Thomas Herod Jr.

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