Brigade Air originated in 2000 as a new division of CSB Ministries in Wheaton, IL (founded 1937) and spun off in early 2004 as a separate 501 (c)(3) organization.
CSB included aviation as one of its youth mentoring activities in earlier years. Their Airman Trail program ran from the 1940’s until the 1970’s.
Paul Robinson, founder of Moody Bible Institute’s Moody Aviation in Chicago flew an airplane from the Wood Dale, IL airport in 1960 to CSB’s 1,800 acre Northwoods Leadership Training Center in Michigan to assist with the Airman Trail program there. Senior leaders in missions aviation ministry today credit the old Airman Trail program as their starting point.
Brigade Air has responded to ongoing missions recruitment needs with new methods, but also is a revisiting of this older successful program.
Former Brigade Air campers have gone on for flight training at Moody Aviation, LeTourneau University, Liberty University, Louisiana Tech University, San Diego Christian College and others, and now serve in foreign missions today.
