Blue Bird Corporation, a Fort Valley, Georgia-based manufacturer of school buses and alternative-fuel commercial vehicles, filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC on December 20, 2013, as part of its going-public process via a merger with Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp, a blank-check company sponsored by Hennessy Capital LLC. The combined company began trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker BLBD in February 2014, marking the completion of one of the early de-SPAC transactions in the industrials and transportation sector. Blue Bird traces its operating history back to 1927 and is among the largest school bus producers in North America. Visit SpacDesk and sign up for full access to filings, sponsor profiles, and deal timelines across the SPAC universe.