When the helicopter is purloined by Libyan mercenaries, Michael 'Archangel' Coldsmith Briggs III (Alex Cord), project director of the CIA, enlists the help of Vietnam veteran Stringfellow Hawke (Jan-Michael Vincent) and his father's best friend Dominic Santini (Ernest Borgnine, McHale's Navy) in an attempt to recover the Airwolf.

A deadly mission takes them to the Middle East, where they come face to face with the enemy in a dirty battle to repossess the deadliest aerial weapon ever made.