Peggy and her BFF Jess are "new" girls - they drive cars, fly planes, even fight for the same opportunities and prize money as boys in the air races. What is so “new” about that? Not much today, but they live in Sandy Bay in 1911.
Peggy Prescott and her brother Roy share a love of aviation that they inherited from their late father. They manage to build a plane starting with the framework their father had begun, and they are determined to enter it in a young aviator’s contest for a prize of $5000.Peggy and Roy along with their best friends, Jess and Jimsy Bancroft – also sister and brother, experience many adventures – many of them while flying the Golden Butterfly. A kidnapping, missing jewels and contact with some desperate characters are just some of what the Prescotts encounter in their Long Island village of Sandy Bay.