2027 Forest River Airelume265

The Airelume 265 leaves Forest River's factory at 6,388 lbs dry, with a published GVWR of 7,830 lbs and 1,442 lbs of cargo capacity between the two. Cargo capacity is 18% 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 44-gallon fresh tank spends 365 lbs of that 1,442 lbs before anything else is loaded.

Tongue weight is 830 lbs, 13% 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: 90 gallons of grey and black capacity against 44 gallons of fresh water, so fresh water runs out first (tank sizes by length).

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

Plan the tow on loaded weight, not the 6,388 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 7,109 lbs, and the published GVWR of 7,830 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. 265 is a Airelume designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 265 differs from the other eleven Airelume floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 18.4%: smallest of twelve; next is the 315 (18.7%).
• Fresh tank, 44 gal: largest of twelve; next are the 255, 270 and three others (40 gal).
• Cargo capacity, 1,442 lb: fourth-smallest of twelve, between the 172 (1,231 lb) and the 170 (1,466 lb).
• Tongue weight, 830 lb: fourth-heaviest of twelve, between the 270 (815 lb) and the 285 (895 lb).
• Dry weight, 6,388 lb: fifth-heaviest of twelve, between the 255 (5,813 lb) and the 270 (6,503 lb).
• GVWR, 7,830 lb: fifth-highest of twelve, between the 255 (7,785 lb) and the 270 (8,503 lb).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 13%: fifth-largest of twelve, between the 172 (12.7%) and the 232 (13.1%).
• Length, 31 ft 8 in: fifth-longest of twelve, between the 255 (29 ft 11 in) and the 270 (33 ft 7 in).
• Grey tank, 60 gal: largest of twelve, level with the 270, 285 and 325; next is the 315 (43 gal).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 8 in: shared with the 232; of twelve, six lower and four taller, nearest the 260 (10 ft 7 in) and the 270 and 285 (11 ft 3 in).

Next to the 255, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 265 is 575 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 45 lb higher, has 530 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 45 lb heavier, is 1 ft 9 in longer, stands 4 in taller, has a fresh tank 4 gal larger and has a grey tank 30 gal larger; the two publish the same black tank.

Next to the 270, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 265 is 115 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 673 lb lower, has 558 lb less cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 15 lb heavier, is 1 ft 11 in shorter, stands 7 in lower and has a fresh tank 4 gal larger; 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 44-gallon fresh tank is about 365 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 25% of the 265’s 1,442 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,077 lb. Across 12 Airelume floorplans the water share runs 16% to 38%, and 3 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Airelume 170 at 22% and Airelume 172 at 26%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).