I'd like to see Airwolf transformed to the big screen as well. However, since we're in 2011, there may be some changes to the concept if it is to work since the 1980s.
First off, hate to break it to all 80s fans, but unfortunately a male bad-ass hero doesn't really make the cut anymore today. So we need to start thinking 'sequel', not 'reboot', if we want to pull some twists.
My idea of the lead would be a female character, related to Stringfellow, who is in the aviation business and has a sub-plot to find her lost father, who, during the course of the film, turns out to be String. (This could be done through archive footage of the series.) Strong female leads work, for both parts of the audience, but a director needs to be careful not to turn it into a man-with-boobs type of personality.
The question is how we're going to fit the helicopter into all this. In 1984, a totally computerized helicopter which could do Mach 1+ and has all the tech to sneak away from the Russians was, obviously, state of the art. Still, Airwolf was a machine with a lot of elegance and one hell of a bite if you pissed her off (which would reflect the before-mentioned female lead!), and still could pass as a regular business helicopter when the occasion arised.
Today, we would have to think of some new gadgets to stick on Airwolf if we still want to make it state of the art. For example, a flight deck cluttered with buttons and knobs all across the frame worked in a 1984/1985 setting, but the look of 'futuristic' in 2011 would probably be more along the lines of minmalist and luxury, still have all the tech on board if the pilot wanted to use it.
The antagonist would probably be something more along the lines of a large international terrorist organisation, or even a big-shot corporation who developed Airwolf in the first place. Obviously, the Russians are not going to work anymore.
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