page_title: Blue Bird All American
section_title: Export markets
hierarchical_section_title: Blue Bird All American / Export markets
caption_attribution_description: Blue Bird All American 1980
context_page_description: The Blue Bird All American is a series of buses produced by American bus manufacturer Blue Bird Corporation. Originally developed as a Type-D school bus, since its 1948 introduction, Blue Bird has produced versions of the All American for a variety of applications, ranging from the Blue Bird Wanderlodge luxury motorhome to buses for law enforcement use.
  While the All American is not the first transit-style school bus, it is the longest-produced model line that is currently in production; six generations have been produced since 1948. Since 1952, Blue Bird has used a proprietary chassis for the All American; the company would later use this practice for the TC/2000 and Vision buses. The model line is produced in both front-engine and rear-engine configurations.
  The current version of the All American was introduced in 2012 for 2014 production; other major updates were introduced in 1952, 1957, 1989, 1999, and 2008. Over its 71 years of production, nearly all examples of the All American have been assembled in Fort Valley, Georgia. From the 1960s to the 1980s, the model line was produced in South America, using locally sourced chassis.
context_section_description: Throughout much of its production, the All American has been exported by Blue Bird to markets worldwide as both a school bus and for other applications.  Following the expansion of Blue Bird into Canada in 1958, the All American adopted the Blue Bird All Canadian brand name.  Following the 1988 introduction of the TC/2000, the All Canadian was renamed the Blue Bird TC/3000, using the same name in all export markets.  Export versions of the D3 and T3 generations are branded as the TX3 and TX4, respectively.
  
  Following the 1966 establishment of its manufacturing facility located in Guatemala (Blue Bird Central America), the factory produced buses using the All American body.  In a shift from its American-produced counterpart, Blue Bird Central America used locally sourced truck chassis (Ford, Mercedes-Benz, and Hino), instead of the proprietary Blue Bird chassis.  Alongside school buses, many examples were built for mass transit.  Blue Bird Central America was closed by the company in the early 1980s.
caption: 1980 Blue Bird All American FE (South America) in Chile (unknown chassis)
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