Finding the hidden ranch house where Dixie Davenport was being held ransom by Tex Regan and Joe Bell, Hop ordered Tank to fly back to the motion picture location camp to alert the state police, and then he bailed out of the beach craft. When he discovered that Regan was leaving the ranch to collect the ransom money, and that Joe was to meet him that night after eliminating Dixie and the horse in a deliberate plane crash - the young pilot took a dangerous chance, in allowing himself to be captured...