Rosalia grad Mary Schu receives national General Aviation honor

Mary Schu poses in front of the “Killer B,” a B-25 airplane.

When Mary Schu, former Rosalia resident now residing in Tualatin, Ore., began her aviation career, she could not have imagined that 40 years later she would eventually be recognized as a National Certificated Flight Instructor of the Year.

Schu, who grew up in Rosalia and graduated with the Rosalia High School class of 1966, owns and operates Mary A. Schu Aviation and Mary A. Schu Consulting near Portland. She was honored earlier this year by the General Aviation Awards program and the FAA as one of four recipients of the 2014 Nation...