Recall Register

Amtran Vanguard: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 4 recall campaigns for the Amtran Vanguard, model years 1981 to 1997. NHTSA has no complaint on file for this model line. 10 of the 17 model years have a page on this register.

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Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

NHTSA publishes these words. Source: NHTSA Datasets and APIs, section Complaints, read on . Complaint file through . Recall file through .

Model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19811
  2. 19821
  3. 19831
  4. 19841
  5. 19851
  6. 19861
  7. 19871
  8. 19882
  9. 19892
  10. 19902
  11. 19912
  12. 19923
  13. 19933
  14. 19942
  15. 19953
  16. 19962
  17. 19972
Amtran Vanguard: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
1997 Amtran Vanguard2045,739
1996 Amtran Vanguard2045,739
1995 Amtran Vanguard3046,234
1994 Amtran Vanguard2045,739
1993 Amtran Vanguard3048,689
1992 Amtran Vanguard3048,689
1991 Amtran Vanguard2045,739
1990 Amtran Vanguard2045,739
1989 Amtran Vanguard2045,739
1988 Amtran Vanguard2045,739
1987 Amtran Vanguard NHTSA page108,083
1986 Amtran Vanguard NHTSA page108,083
1985 Amtran Vanguard NHTSA page108,083
1984 Amtran Vanguard NHTSA page108,083
1983 Amtran Vanguard NHTSA page108,083
1982 Amtran Vanguard NHTSA page108,083
1981 Amtran Vanguard NHTSA page108,083

The share is the complaints of the model year divided by the average of the line for one model year. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.

A model year with fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints has no page here. The link in its row opens its NHTSA page.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Amtran Vanguard, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 1998, with 2 campaigns.
Complaints about the Amtran Vanguard, by the year NHTSA received them.

Other model lines of the make

Amtran: all 14 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Amtran Vanguard: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/amtran/vanguard/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
Manufacturer in the recall file
AMERICAN TRANSPORTATION CORP.

The model name is the name in the NHTSA files. NHTSA keeps a variant of a model as a different line. How the register is made. Report an error.

Questions

Which Amtran Vanguard model years have the most recall campaigns?
1995 with 3, 1993 with 3, 1992 with 3. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Amtran Vanguard model year has the most complaints?
The NHTSA complaint file has no complaint for this model line.