The Crown-Ikarus 286 is a type of transit bus that was manufactured for the U.S. market from 1980 until 1986, under a joint venture between the Ikarus Body and Coach Works (Ikarus), of Budapest, Hungary, and Crown Coach Corporation from Los Angeles, California in the United States. Loosely based on the Ikarus 280, the Crown-Ikarus 286 is a high-floor articulated bus.
TriMet #744, a 1982 Crown-Ikarus 286 in Portland, Oregon, in 1993
View of left side and rear of a 60-foot Crown-Ikarus bus
Ikarus (Hungarian company)
Ikarus was a bus manufacturer based in Budapest and Székesfehérvár, Hungary. It was established in 1895 as Imre Uhry's Blacksmith Workshop and Coach Factory (hun.: Uhry Imre Kovács- és Kocsigyártó Üzeme) and during the Communist era in Hungary it dominated bus markets of the entire Eastern Bloc and its allies.
Ikarus (Hungarian company)
The sole survivor of the Tr 5 model, in 2016
The 1000th unit of the Ikarus 30
An early unit of the Ikarus 250 SL model, in 1970