Skyward

The story

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.

In the same saga

Skyward Collection

In release order

This film

Skyward

1980

Skyward Christmas

1981

Cast

B Bette DavisBillie Dupree H Howard HessemanKoup Trenton S Suzy BarbieriJulie Ward M Marion RossNatalie Ward C Clu GulagerSteve Ward B Ben MarleyScott Billings L Lisa WhelchelLisa Ward I Irma P. HallMrs. Sinclair M Mark WheelerMr. Olsen J Jessie Lee FultonSecretary B Bill ThurmanPilot #1 R Rance HowardPilot #2

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R Rhonda MintonStephanie G Gene PietragalloJason G Greta BlackburnMiss Russell J Jeff NicholsonTheatre Usher K Kate FinlaysonNurse R Rusty McCaskeyBoy in Class B Bill BlackwoodSelf