Blue Bird Corporation - Manufacturing Facilities

Manufacturing Facilities

Blue Bird Corporation currently operates a single manufacturing facility in the United States: the Blue Bird Body Company in Fort Valley, Georgia. A second facility (Blue Bird North Georgia) in LaFayette, Georgia was closed August 30, 2010.

In the past, Blue Bird has had an international manufacturing presence, with two factories in Canada, one in Mexico, and one in South America. These have now all been closed due to changing market conditions and Blue Bird's change back to a lineup of school bus-based vehicles.

Blue Bird Corporation Manufacturing Facilities
Name Location Product Lines Year Opened Year Closed Notes
Blue Bird Body Company Fort Valley, Georgia
  • All American
  • TC/2000
  • Vision
  • Q-Bus
  • CS
  • parts
 See Notes
  • The first Fort Valley facility opened in 1935; destroyed by fire in 1945.
  • Present Fort Valley facility opened in 1946.
Blue Bird North Georgia LaFayette, Georgia
  • Vision
  • Conventional
  • TC/2000
 1988 2010 Closed August 30, 2010.
Blue Bird Canada Brantford, Ontario, Canada
  • TC/2000
  • Conventional
  • Micro Bird
  • parts
 1958 2007 Blue Bird also operated a facility in St. Lin, Quebec from 1975 to 1982
Blue Bird Midwest Mount Pleasant, Iowa
  • TC/2000
  • Conventional
  • Mini Bird
  • Micro Bird
 1962 2002
Blue Bird de Mexico Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico
  • Conventional
 1995 2001
Blue Bird East Buena Vista, Virginia
  • Conventional
  • Mini Bird
  • TC/2000
 1972 1992
Blue Bird Central America Guatemala City, Guatemala See Notes 1965 1980s Produced All American and Conventional bodies on locally available chassis.
Blue Bird Wanderlodge Fort Valley, Georgia
  • Wanderlodge
  • parts
 1963 2007 Originally opened as Cardinal Manufacturing

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