Blue Bird All American, model years 2011 to 2017. Filed by Blue Bird Body Company and reported to NHTSA on 25 March 2016. 67 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Blue Bird Body Company (Blue Bird) is recalling certain model year 2011-2017 All American school buses manufactured from August 20, 2010, through December 16, 2015. Buses with rear side emergency doors have seats over the wheelhouse area whose rear legs may detach from the floor in a crash, resulting in belted …
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Blue Bird's own number for this recall: R16YM-SB. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 16V172 is the number NHTSA gave the same campaign, and the number this page is filed under. They are one recall, written two ways.
What owners ask about this recall
- Which vehicles does recall 16V172 cover?
- Blue Bird All American, model years 2011-2017.
- What is wrong with them?
- Blue Bird Body Company (Blue Bird) is recalling certain model year 2011-2017 All American school buses manufactured from August 20, 2010, through December 16, 2015.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- If the seat does not allow the occupant to be properly restrained in the event of a crash, they would be at an increased risk of injury.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Blue Bird will notify owners, and dealers will replace the rear leg assembly, free of charge. The recall began on April 19, 2016. Owners may contact Blue Bird customer service at 1-478-822-2242. Blue Bird's recall number for this campaign is R16YM-SB.
- What should I do now?
- Check your own vehicle by its VIN with NHTSA, which is the record to act on. Blue Bird calls this recall R16YM-SB, which is the number on the owner letter and the dealer paperwork.
Answered from the register this site holds. NHTSA is the record to act on.
What the authority says can happen if this is not fixed: “If the seat does not allow the occupant to be properly restrained in the event of a crash, they would be at an increased risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 16V172 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Blue Bird Body Company |
| System at fault | Seats |
| Reported to NHTSA | 25 March 2016 |
| Model years | 2011-2017 |
| Vehicles named | BLUE BIRD ALL AMERICAN |
What the notice says today
The consequence
If the seat does not allow the occupant to be properly restrained in the event of a crash, they would be at an increased risk of injury.
The remedy
Blue Bird will notify owners, and dealers will replace the rear leg assembly, free of charge. The recall began on April 19, 2016. Owners may contact Blue Bird customer service at 1-478-822-2242. Blue Bird's recall number for this campaign is R16YM-SB.
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 459 notices in the record whose component field names seats. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 44 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
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 16V172, wording as read on 16 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/16v172/
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.
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- 26V246: 2026-2027 All American school buses
- 26V245: 2026 All American transit buses
All 159 Blue Bird campaigns we hold · Every manufacturer in the record
The fingerprint of this notice
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 16V172 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
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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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