A longtime jack-of-all-number-crunching at Friedman Memorial Airport has been picked by peers as Employee of the Quarter.
Michael Rasch was nominated for the title by his colleague, Atlantic Aviation General Manager Melidee Wright, and by local Hertz Manager John Whaley, then finally selected by a committee of tenant managers at the airport.
Rasch has had several business incarnations in his 20 years at the airport—first as accountant for Sun Valley Aviation, then general manager and finally as chief financial officer for the parent Albuquerque-based Seven Bar Co.
Sun Valley Aviation, the airport's only fixed-base operator offering service to aircraft, has since been purchased by Atlantic Aviation, where Rasch serves in a similar financial executive capacity.