2027 Forest River Airelume255

The Airelume 255 leaves Forest River's factory at 5,813 lbs dry, with a published GVWR of 7,785 lbs and 1,972 lbs of cargo capacity between the two. Cargo capacity is 25% 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 40-gallon fresh tank spends 332 lbs of that 1,972 lbs before anything else is loaded.

Tongue weight is 785 lbs, 14% 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 40 gallons of fresh water, so fresh water runs out first (tank sizes by length).

Against the rest of the Airelume roster this is the 7th of 12 floorplans by dry weight, in a line that runs from 2,824 lbs to 8,708 lbs. It sits in the middle of the line by weight.

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 5,813 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 6,799 lbs, and the published GVWR of 7,785 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. 255 is a Airelume designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 255 differs from the other eleven Airelume floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 13.5%: third-largest of twelve, between the 232 (13.1%) and the 160 (13.8%).
• Dry weight, 5,813 lb: sixth-heaviest of twelve, between the 260 (4,399 lb) and the 265 (6,388 lb).
• GVWR, 7,785 lb: sixth-highest of twelve, between the 260 (6,399 lb) and the 265 (7,830 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 1,972 lb: sixth-smallest of twelve, between the 170 (1,466 lb) and the 232, 260 and four others (2,000 lb).
• Tongue weight, 785 lb: sixth-heaviest of twelve, between the 232 (530 lb) and the 270 (815 lb).
• Length, 29 ft 11 in: sixth-longest of twelve, between the 260 (28 ft 7 in) and the 265 (31 ft 8 in).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 4 in: shared with the 172; of twelve, two lower and eight taller, nearest the 160 and 162 (10 ft 2 in) and the 170 (10 ft 5 in).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 25.3%: shared with the 172; of twelve, six smaller and four larger, nearest the 270 (23.5%) and the 162 (26.2%).
• Fresh tank, 40 gal: shared with the 270, 285 and two others; of twelve, six smaller and one larger, nearest the 160, 162 and four others (39 gal) and the 265 (44 gal).

Next to the 260, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 255 is 1,414 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 1,386 lb higher, has 28 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 300 lb heavier, is 1 ft 4 in longer, stands 3 in lower and has a fresh tank 1 gal larger; the two publish the same grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 265, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 255 is 575 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 45 lb lower, has 530 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 45 lb lighter, is 1 ft 9 in shorter, stands 4 in lower, has a fresh tank 4 gal smaller and has a grey tank 30 gal smaller; the two publish the same 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 40-gallon fresh tank is about 332 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 17% of the 255’s 1,972 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,640 lb. Across 12 Airelume floorplans the water share runs 16% to 38%, and 5 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Airelume 270 at 17% and Airelume 170 at 22%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).