2027 Forest River Airelume270

The Airelume 270 leaves Forest River's factory at 6,503 lbs dry, with a published GVWR of 8,503 lbs and 2,000 lbs of cargo capacity between the two. Cargo capacity is 24% 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 2,000 lbs before anything else is loaded.

Tongue weight is 815 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 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 9th 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 6,503 lbs dry figure: half the published cargo capacity brings this plan to about 7,503 lbs, and the published GVWR of 8,503 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. 270 is a Airelume designation and this site does not decode it into a layout claim.

How the 270 differs from the other eleven Airelume floorplans. Most distinctive first. How these ranks are worked out.

• Dry weight, 6,503 lb: fourth-heaviest of twelve, between the 265 (6,388 lb) and the 285 (7,233 lb).
• GVWR, 8,503 lb: fourth-highest of twelve, between the 265 (7,830 lb) and the 285 (9,233 lb).
• Length, 33 ft 7 in: fourth-longest of twelve, between the 265 (31 ft 8 in) and the 285 (36 ft 10 in).
• Tongue weight, 815 lb: fifth-heaviest of twelve, between the 255 (785 lb) and the 265 (830 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 23.5%: sixth-smallest of twelve, between the 160 (21.8%) and the 172 and 255 (25.3%).
• Tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 12.5%: sixth-smallest of twelve, between the 285 (12.4%) and the 172 (12.7%).
• Exterior height, 11 ft 3 in: shared with the 285; of twelve, eight lower and two taller, nearest the 232 and 265 (10 ft 8 in) and the 325 (11 ft 4 in).
• Grey tank, 60 gal: largest of twelve, level with the 265, 285 and 325; next is the 315 (43 gal).
• Cargo capacity, 2,000 lb: largest of twelve, level with the 232, 260 and three others; next is the 255 (1,972 lb).
• Fresh tank, 40 gal: shared with the 255, 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 265, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 270 is 115 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 673 lb higher, has 558 lb more cargo capacity, has a tongue weight 15 lb lighter, is 1 ft 11 in longer, stands 7 in taller and has a fresh tank 4 gal smaller; the two publish the same grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 285, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 270 is 730 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 730 lb lower, has a tongue weight 80 lb lighter and is 3 ft 3 in shorter; the two publish the same cargo capacity, 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 40-gallon fresh tank is about 332 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 17% of the 270’s 2,000 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,668 lb. Across 12 Airelume floorplans the water share runs 16% to 38%, and 6 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Airelume 285 at 17% and Airelume 255 at 17%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).