Flyer D800

The Flyer D800 was the second generation of Flyer's transit bus, built from 1974 to 1979 by Flyer Industries, the name Western Flyer took in 1971 when the Manitoba Development Corporation bought the company. It adopted the exterior that AM General had devised for its licensed Metropolitan version of the D700, most visibly larger rectangular side windows in place of the slanted ones of the D700. Flyer built 561 D800 diesel buses between 1974 and 1979, of which 86 were the 35-foot length first built in 1978 and the rest were 40 feet long. The electric version, the E800 trolleybus, was built alongside it, with Edmonton Transit as the lead customer and San Francisco Muni taking 343, Flyer's largest order. The D900 followed it and changed the front end again.