Blue Bird All American, model years 2007 to 2012. Filed by Blue Bird Body Company and reported to NHTSA on 2 December 2011. 250 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Blue bird is recalling certain model year 2007 through 2012 all american rear engine school buses manufactured from april 12, 2006, through june 27, 2011, and equipped with a 60 gallon fuel tank. the tank return line can develop a leak that exceeds the amount of fuel spillage allowed. accordingly, these buses fail to …
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The maker's own number for this recall: R11TR. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 11V569 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “A FUEL LEAK IN THE PRESENCE OF AN IGNITION SOURCE CAN RESULT IN A FIRE.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 11V569 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | BLUE BIRD BODY COMPANY |
| System at fault | Fuel System, Diesel |
| Reported to NHTSA | 2 December 2011 |
| Model years | 2007-2012 |
| Vehicles named | BLUE BIRD ALL AMERICAN |
What the notice says today
The consequence
A FUEL LEAK IN THE PRESENCE OF AN IGNITION SOURCE CAN RESULT IN A FIRE.
The remedy
BLUE BIRD WILL NOTIFY OWNERS, AND DEALERS WILL REPAIR THE BUSES FREE OF CHARGE. THE SAFETY RECALL BEGAN ON MARCH 9, 2012. OWNERS MAY CONTACT BLUE BIRD AT 1-478-822-2242.
What it said before
This campaign is in the register but not yet in the dated wording archive, so we cannot yet say whether its text has moved. It enters the archive on the next pass.
This is one of 197 notices in the record whose component field names fuel system, diesel. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 43 days.
Last checked . No change has been recorded in the wording.
The models named here, across their whole recall history
How to cite this record
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CarsMultiverse, recall 11V569, wording as read on 8 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/11v569/
The cross-border matches used on this site are deposited as a citable dataset: doi:10.5281/zenodo.22087136. The recall wording itself is published by the national authority named above and is theirs, not ours.
The recall record and its wording are published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and are US Government public domain. The dated archive, the comparison and any before-and-after above are CarsMultiverse. How fresh every engine behind this page is, is public on the status page. To check a specific vehicle, use NHTSA’s own VIN lookup.
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We take a SHA-256 of each of the three blocks of text the authority publishes and keep the first eight characters. As we last read campaign 11V569 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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57ecf0d5 - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 21 August 2026. It has not moved since. If it ever does, these characters will not match, and the change will be dated here.
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