Recall Register

Lincoln Aviator: recalls and complaints by model year

NHTSA lists 51 recall campaigns for the Lincoln Aviator, model years 2003 to 2027. NHTSA has 231 complaints on file for this model line. 11 of the 11 model years have a page on this register.

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. 20031
  2. 20040
  3. 20050
  4. 202030
  5. 202128
  6. 202221
  7. 202316
  8. 20248
  9. 202515
  10. 20266
  11. 20272
Lincoln Aviator: recall campaigns and complaints for each model year, newest first
Model yearRecall campaignsComplaintsShare of the line averageUnits in the campaigns
2027 Lincoln Aviator200%464,659
2026 Lincoln Aviator600%523,528
2025 Lincoln Aviator1500%1,480,724
2024 Lincoln Aviator800%1,854,371
2023 Lincoln Aviator1600%4,062,628
2022 Lincoln Aviator2100%4,779,788
2021 Lincoln Aviator2800%6,040,680
2020 Lincoln Aviator3000%5,766,939
2005 Lincoln Aviator047224%
2004 Lincoln Aviator078371%
2003 Lincoln Aviator1106505%25

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.

Components in the complaints

329 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

Lincoln Aviator: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
ComponentPer 1,000Mentions
Power Train264.487
Structure182.460
Engine and Engine Cooling94.231
Visibility51.717
Electrical System48.616
Air Bags45.615
Steering42.614
Vehicle Speed Control39.513
Service Brakes, Hydraulic39.513
Suspension36.512

Counts by year

Recall campaigns that name the Lincoln Aviator, by the year NHTSA received the report. The largest year is 2025, with 15 campaigns.
Complaints about the Lincoln Aviator, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2010, with 38 complaints.

Other model lines of the make

Lincoln: all 24 model lines

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. Lincoln Aviator: recalls and complaints by model year. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/lincoln/aviator/. 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
29 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
15 May 2019
Manufacturer in the recall file
FORD MOTOR COMPANY

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 Lincoln Aviator model years have the most recall campaigns?
2020 with 30, 2021 with 28, 2022 with 21. A campaign that names 3 model years is in the count of each of the 3.
Which Lincoln Aviator model year has the most complaints?
The 2003 model year, with 106 of the 231 complaints for the line. A newer model year has had less time to get complaints.
Which components do the complaints about the Lincoln Aviator name?
Power Train: 264.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Structure: 182.4 per 1,000 component mentions. Engine and Engine Cooling: 94.2 per 1,000 component mentions.
How many NHTSA investigations name the Lincoln Aviator?
3 investigations name one or more model years of the line. The page of each model year lists its investigations.