Julie Clark

Julie E. Clark (born June 27, 1948) is a retired American aerobatic air show aviator and commercial airline pilot.

[3][4] She flew an average of 20 air shows a year in her Juice Plus-sponsored Beechcraft T-34 Mentor,[5] and is rated in more than 66 types of aircraft.

She performed in the same plane from 1977 until 2019, a T-34 Mentor that she bought for $18,000 at a government surplus auction in Anchorage, Alaska.

[6][7] She named the plane Free Spirit, which went to the Hiller Aviation Museum when she retired.

In the late 1990s, she added a North American T-28C Trojan, named Top Banana, to her aerobatics routine.

Clark in the Beechcraft T-34 "Free Spirit" at Nellis Air Force Base in 2019
Clark's North American T-28 "Top Banana" N128JC, which she flew at airshows for over 20 years