2027 Forest River Airelume260

The Airelume 260 leaves Forest River's factory at 4,399 lbs dry, with a published GVWR of 6,399 lbs and 2,000 lbs of cargo capacity between the two. Cargo capacity is 31% 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 2,000 lbs before anything else is loaded.

Tongue weight is 485 lbs, 11% 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 6th 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 4,399 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 5,399 lbs, and the published GVWR of 6,399 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. 260 is a Airelume designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 260 differs from the other eleven Airelume floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 31.3%: second-largest of twelve, between the 170 (26.4%) and the 232 (33%).
• Tongue weight, 485 lb: fifth-lightest of twelve, between the 172 (460 lb) and the 232 (530 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 11%: smallest of twelve, level with the 170; next is the 162 (11.5%).
• Dry weight, 4,399 lb: sixth-lightest of twelve, between the 170 (4,084 lb) and the 255 (5,813 lb).
• GVWR, 6,399 lb: sixth-lowest of twelve, between the 232 (6,054 lb) and the 255 (7,785 lb).
• Length, 28 ft 7 in: sixth-shortest of twelve, between the 232 (27 ft 3 in) and the 255 (29 ft 11 in).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 7 in: sixth-lowest of twelve, between the 170 (10 ft 5 in) and the 232 and 265 (10 ft 8 in).
• Cargo capacity, 2,000 lb: largest of twelve, level with the 232, 270 and three others; next is the 255 (1,972 lb).
• Fresh tank, 39 gal: smallest of twelve, level with the 160, 162 and three others; next are the 255, 270 and three others (40 gal).

Next to the 170, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 260 is 315 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 849 lb higher, has 534 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 35 lb heavier, is 4 ft 10 in longer and stands 2 in taller; the two publish the same fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 255, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 260 is 1,414 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 1,386 lb lower, has 28 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 300 lb lighter, is 1 ft 4 in shorter, stands 3 in taller and has a fresh tank 1 gal smaller; the two publish the same 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), 16% of the 260’s 2,000 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,676 lb. Across 12 Airelume floorplans the water share runs 16% to 38%, and 10 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Airelume 232 at 16% and Airelume 270 at 17%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).