Blue Bird Vision School Bus, model years 2025 to 2027. Filed by Blue Bird Body Company and reported to NHTSA on 31 August 2026. 82 vehicles potentially affected.
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: R26AH. That is the number on the owner letter and on the dealer paperwork. 26V556 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 wheelchair lift that continues to move while occupied increases the risk of injury.”
affected
in the notice
caught
| Campaign | 26V556 |
|---|---|
| Filed by | Blue Bird Body Company |
| System at fault | Equipment Adaptive/Mobility:Wheelchair Lift/Ramp:Controls/Control Wiring |
| Reported to NHTSA | 31 August 2026 |
| Model years | 2025-2027 |
| Vehicles named | BLUE BIRD VISION SCHOOL BUS |
What the notice says today
The defect
Blue Bird Body Company (Blue Bird) is recalling certain 2025-2027 Vision school buses equipped with Ricon K-Series wheelchair platform lifts. The electrical contactor may fail, preventing the controls from stopping the lift.
The consequence
A wheelchair lift that continues to move while occupied increases the risk of injury.
The remedy
Dealers will correct the wiring by installing two diodes, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed October 30, 2026. Owners may contact Blue Bird customer service at 1-478-822-2242. Blue Bird's number for this recall is R26AH.
What it said before
Nothing has changed while we have been watching. We last read the wording of this campaign on 10 September 2026, and it matched the copy we already held.
That copy hashes to d1cdb76824c902fd3baa51786b993f6e…, so if it is ever edited the change is provable rather than a matter of memory.
This is one of 289 notices in the record whose component field names equipment adaptive/mobility. Across that group the median wait before owners were written to was 36 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 26V556, wording as read on 10 September 2026. https://carsmultiverse.com/recall/26v556/
The copy quoted above hashes to d1cdb76824c902fd3baa51786b993f6e…. 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
- 26V520: 2023-2027 Vision Transit Buses
- 26V519: 2021-2024 and 2026-2027 Vision School Bus (Electric), and 2023-2027 Vision School 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 26V556 on 10 September 2026, they were:
- Defect summary
019e5808 - Consequence
05059df4 - Remedy
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We first read this notice on 2 September 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 26V556 · how the whole register is watched
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