Blue Bird Corporation (NASDAQ: BLBD) entered the public markets through its February 2014 merger with Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp, a blank-check company sponsored by Hennessy Capital Group that completed its IPO in 2013. The transaction brought the Fort Valley, Georgia-based manufacturer of school buses and commercial vehicles into the public equity markets, representing one of the earlier SPAC completions in the commercial transportation and specialty vehicle sector. The 10-Q filed November 14, 2014, under accession number 0001213900-14-008257, reflects Blue Bird's first full operating quarters as a post-combination public company trading under the BLBD ticker. Sign up for full data on SpacDesk to access complete filing histories, deal timelines, and SPAC analytics across hundreds of transactions.