Blue Bird Vision School Bus, Blue Bird Vision School Bus (Electric), model years 2021 to 2027. Filed by Blue Bird Body Company and reported to NHTSA on 10 August 2026. 18,248 vehicles potentially affected.
What the notice says Blue Bird Body Company (Blue Bird) is recalling certain 2021-2024 and 2026-2027 Vision School Bus (Electric), and 2023-2027 Vision School Buses. The 12V power wire on one of the harnesses may become damaged and short circuit.
Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at NHTSA, or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on.
Blue Bird's own number for this recall: R26AG. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V519 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 26V519 cover?
- Blue Bird Vision School Bus, Blue Bird Vision School Bus (Electric), model years 2021-2027.
- What is wrong with them?
- Blue Bird Body Company (Blue Bird) is recalling certain 2021-2024 and 2026-2027 Vision School Bus (Electric), and 2023-2027 Vision School Buses. The 12V power wire on one of the harnesses may become damaged and short circuit.
- What can happen if it is not put right?
- An electrical short can cause a disruption to safety functions such as a loss of rear lighting or instrument panel warning lights, increasing the risk of a crash.
- Is there a fix yet?
- Yes, and it is free. Dealers will add an in-line fuse and repair the wire harnesses as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed October 9, 2026. Owners may contact Blue Bird customer service at 1-478-822-2242. Blue Bird's number for this recall is R26AG.
- 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 R26AG, 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: “An electrical short can cause a disruption to safety functions such as a loss of rear lighting or instrument panel warning lights, increasing the risk of a crash.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V519 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Blue Bird Body Company |
| System at fault | Electrical System:Wiring |
| Reported to NHTSA | 10 August 2026 |
| Model years | 2021-2027 |
| Vehicles named | BLUE BIRD VISION SCHOOL BUS, BLUE BIRD VISION SCHOOL BUS (ELECTRIC) |
What the notice says today
The defect
Blue Bird Body Company (Blue Bird) is recalling certain 2021-2024 and 2026-2027 Vision School Bus (Electric), and 2023-2027 Vision School Buses. The 12V power wire on one of the harnesses may become damaged and short circuit.
The consequence
An electrical short can cause a disruption to safety functions such as a loss of rear lighting or instrument panel warning lights, increasing the risk of a crash.
The remedy
Dealers will add an in-line fuse and repair the wire harnesses as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed October 9, 2026. Owners may contact Blue Bird customer service at 1-478-822-2242. Blue Bird's number for this recall is R26AG.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 17 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to 30d96e16cf37ca295f28892f63302ec9…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 1,836 notices in the record whose component field names electrical system. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 41 days.
Last checked . 1 change recorded in the wording since we started reading it daily, the latest on 9 October 2026.
Changed since our daily reading began
9 October 2026: the remedy was rewritten. Before: Dealers will add an in-line fuse and repair the wire harnesses as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed October 9, 2026. Owners may contact Blue Bird customer service at 1-478-822-2242. Blue Bird's number for this recall is R26AG.
After: Dealers will add an in-line fuse and repair the wire harnesses as necessary, free of charge. Owner notification letters were mailed October 7, 2026. Owners may contact Blue Bird customer service at 1-478-822-2242. Blue Bird's number for this recall is R26AG.
Side by side
The models named here, across their whole recall history
- Blue Bird Vision School Bus recalls: 51 US campaigns
- Blue Bird Vision School Bus (Electric) recalls: 4 US campaigns
How to cite this record
Quoting the wording on this page means quoting a version, so the date belongs in the citation:
CarsMultiverse, recall 26V519, wording as read on 17 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v519/
The copy quoted above hashes to 30d96e16cf37ca295f28892f63302ec9…. If the notice is reworded later, that fingerprint will not match, which is how a reader checks that the quotation was of the version we say it was.
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.
Other Blue Bird notices we hold
- 26V556: 2025-2027 Vision school buses equipped with Ricon K-Series wheelchair platform lifts
- 26V520: 2023-2027 Vision Transit Buses
- 26V467: 2022-2027 Vision transit buses
- 26V466: 2022-2027 Vision school buses
- 26V319: 2027 Vision school buses
- 26V246: 2026-2027 All American school buses
- 26V245: 2026 All American transit buses
- 26V033: one 2026 Vision transit bus
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 26V519 on 23 August 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
ce73e397 - Consequence
67d93c7a - 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.
The wording we hold for 26V519 · how the whole register is watched
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