2027 Forest River Airelume162

The Airelume 162 leaves Forest River's factory at 2,824 lbs dry, with a published GVWR of 3,825 lbs and 1,001 lbs of cargo capacity between the two. Cargo capacity is 26% of the loaded rating, and Forest River's own definition is worth reading before you plan against it: cargo capacity is what remains for fresh water, gear, food, batteries and every dealer-installed accessory. Fresh water alone is 8.3 lb per gallon, so filling this trailer's 39-gallon fresh tank spends 324 lbs of that 1,001 lbs before anything else is loaded.

Tongue weight is 325 lbs, 12% of the dry weight as published; it rises as the trailer is loaded and counts against the tow vehicle’s tongue-weight and payload limits (tongue weight by size).

Off hookups: 60 gallons of grey and black capacity against 39 gallons of fresh water, so fresh water runs out first (tank sizes by length).

Against the rest of the Airelume roster this is the 1st of 12 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 2,824 lbs to 8,708 lbs. It is the lightest plan in the line, which makes it the one to look at first if the tow vehicle is the constraint.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 2,824 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 3,324 lbs, and the published GVWR of 3,825 lbs is the limit (how to read trailer weights).

Forest River’s line listing and this floorplan’s own factory page agree on all 4 shared figures. Dry weight plus cargo capacity equals the published GVWR exactly. A missing row means Forest River does not publish that figure (how figures are verified).

Forest River publishes no floorplan description for this plan in the channel this page is built from - only the numeric specification block. Rather than describe a layout from the floorplan code, which would be a guess dressed as a fact, this page carries what the factory publishes and says where it stops. 162 is a Airelume designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 162 differs from the other eleven Airelume floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Dry weight, 2,824 lb: lightest of twelve; next is the 160 (3,069 lb).
• GVWR, 3,825 lb: lowest of twelve; next is the 160 (3,925 lb).
• Tongue weight, 325 lb: lightest of twelve; next is the 160 (425 lb).
• Length, 20 ft 3 in: shortest of twelve; next is the 172 (21 ft 7 in).
• Cargo capacity, 1,001 lb: second-smallest of twelve, between the 160 (856 lb) and the 172 (1,231 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 11.5%: third-smallest of twelve, between the 170 and 260 (11%) and the 315 (11.9%).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 26.2%: fourth-largest of twelve, between the 172 and 255 (25.3%) and the 170 (26.4%).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 2 in: lowest of twelve, level with the 160; next are the 172 and 255 (10 ft 4 in).
• Fresh tank, 39 gal: smallest of twelve, level with the 160, 170 and three others; next are the 255, 270 and three others (40 gal).

Next to the 160, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 162 is 245 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 100 lb lower, has 145 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 100 lb lighter and is 1 ft 5 in shorter; the two publish the same exterior height, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Airelume is a wide line for a single grouping: dry weight runs 2,824 lb at the 160 up to 8,708 lb at the 325, so the heaviest plan is more than three times the lightest. Cargo capacity runs 856 to 2,000 lb and tongue weight 325 to 1,090 lb. GVWR runs 3,825 to 10,708 lb. Because every plan publishes a factory GVWR that ties out, the loaded rating on this line is a measured number on every page rather than a reconstruction.

A full 39-gallon fresh tank is about 324 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 32% of the 162’s 1,001 lb cargo capacity, leaving 677 lb. Across 12 Airelume floorplans the water share runs 16% to 38%, and 1 gives up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Airelume 172 at 26% and Airelume 160 at 38%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).