Overview

When designing its Micro Bird body, Blue Bird transferred its years of experience in large school buses to build a small bus engineered with safety and reliability in mind. The Blue Bird Micro Bird offers real bus strength, unrivaled safety, and years of dependable service. Features of the Blue Bird Micro Bird body include Blue Bird’s trademark one-piece roof bows and unitized body construction and our embossed drip visors over windows to prevent corrosion. Heavy-duty structural components from front to rear form a sturdy steel fortress around passengers and provide extra strength that adds years to the life of the bus.

Blue Bird’s trademark one-piece roof bows provide maximum roll-over strength.

A variety of seat plans and configurations, including track seating and special needs options, offer customers optimal flexibility to meet specific passenger needs. Available capacities up to 30 are available on the Micro Bird.

One piece roof sheets from window top to window top add extra strength and durability to the Blue Bird All American Rear Engine.

Four full-length, 16 gauge exterior side rub rails are positioned to offer optimum strength and protection and are specifically designed to resist penetration on side collisions; rails are dimpled at bottom fasteners to facilitate drainage and prevent corrosion.

Drip molding visors are embossed in the Blue Bird All American’s roof sheets over each window, minimizing corrosion by eliminating a need for an additional metal joint and permitting ventilation during inclement weather.

A massive 16-gauge internal continuous side plate of steel armor above and below floor line; these side plates create a wall of protection around occupants.

Comfort Aire, Blue Bird’s integrated air conditioning offering, provides greater efficiency and quality than competitor aftermarket systems as the Comfort Aire system is designed in harmony with other OEM installed components.

Optional special needs equipment ensures that all students may enjoy a safe and secure ride.

Micro Bird bus bodies may be mounted on either a Ford or GM chassis (both chassis are available with diesel or gasoline engines); all Micro Birds are mounted to the chassis using thick rubber isolators for smoother rides.

The Blue Bird Micro Bird school bus not only offers safety and security, but it also directly caters to special needs students. Blue Bird understands that these special needs passengers require unique features and has engineered these qualities into the design of the Blue Bird Micro Bird to provide peace of mind for parents and transportation professionals.

Specific Special Needs Equipment/Options on the Blue Bird Micro Bird school bus include:

• Recessed wheelchair track and tie-down for safe and secure transport
• Increased maneuverability from the short wheelbase and superior handling/steering to enable tight turn and curbside pick-ups if needed
• Smooth operating wheelchair lifts from suppliers including Braun and Ricon and flexible wheelchair securement track locations
• Optional flat floor for maximum configuration flexibility
• Comfort Aire, Blue Bird’s integrated air conditioning systems, for maintaining passenger compartment temperatures with maximum efficiency and the quality only provided from an OEM installed component
• Exceptional passenger ride quality with Blue Bird’s energy absorbing rubber isolator mounting system
• Low, nonskid stepwell for easy entering/exiting the bus by walk-on passengers
• Small size for a less intimidating vehicle for sensitive passengers

*Please note that wheelchair equipment is only available on Micro Bird Dual Rear Wheel Models.

For more information or a complete list of specifications for the Blue Bird Micro Bird, please download a .pdf copy of our Blue Bird Micro Bird brochures. If you would like to request a paper version of any of these brochures, you may do so by navigating to our literature order form.

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