Blue Bird Corporation
Manufacturing and assembly

Blue Bird Corporation

Section Title: Manufacturing and assembly
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Blue Bird Corporation Manufacturing Facilities

Name	Location	Product Lines	Year Opened	Year Closed	Notes

United States

Blue Bird Body Company	Fort Valley, Georgia	All AmericanTC/2000VisionQ-BusCSparts	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	VisionConventionalTC/2000	1988	2010	Closed August 30, 2010.

Blue Bird Midwest	Mount Pleasant, Iowa	TC/2000ConventionalMini BirdMicro Bird	1962	2002

Blue Bird East	Buena Vista, Virginia	ConventionalMini BirdTC/2000	1972	1992

Blue Bird Wanderlodge	Fort Valley, Georgia	Wanderlodgeparts	1963	2007	Originally opened as Cardinal Manufacturing

Canada

Blue Bird Canada	Brantford, Ontario, Canada	TC/2000ConventionalMicro Birdparts	1958	2007	Blue Bird also operated a facility in St. Lin, Quebec from 1975 to 1982

Micro Bird, Inc.	Drummondville, Quebec, Canada	Micro Bird (MB-II, G5)	1981	Girardin Minibus production facility

Worldwide Facilities

Blue Bird de Mexico	Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico	Conventional	1995	2001

Blue Bird Central America	Guatemala City, Guatemala	See Notes	1965	1980s	Produced All American and Conventional bodies on locally available chassis.

Sentence(s)

In 2010, Blue Bird North Georgia (LaFayette, Georgia) was closed.

final_sentence: In 2010, Blue Bird North Georgia (LaFayette, Georgia) was closed.