Lewis Albert Jackson was an African American aviator, educator, and innovator remembered for training Tuskegee Airmen during World War II. As a teenager in Indiana, he began flight lessons and soloed in 1932, flying his own Waco 10. From 1932 to 1937 he barnstormed to save money for college while earning his Transport Pilot’s License, then re-rated to a Commercial License with Instructor Rating in 1939 and completed advanced acrobatic training at Coffey School of Aeronautics. In late 1940, he was appointed Director of Training in the Army Air Force 66th Flight Training Detachment at Tuskegee Institute. After the war he moved to Ohio and served as an FAA Flight Examiner from 1947 to 1960. He also earned degrees in education from Marion College, Miami University, and The Ohio State University, taught in Indiana public schools, and later held teaching and administrative posts at Central State University, Sinclair Community College, and The Ohio State University. At Sinclair he fostered the business entrepreneur program. In 1956, in Xenia, he built and flew the Versatile 1, his first experimental aircraft, aimed at creating a "convertible" airplane-automobile that could be flown, driven, and stored in a residential garage. A founding member of the Greene County Regional Airport Authority, he served on many regional and national educational and aviation boards, and the Lewis A. Jackson Greene County Regional Airport was posthumously renamed in his honor.