2026 Prime Time Avenger26DBS

The 26DBS is Avenger's classic family bunkhouse. The Forest River factory describes the floorplan as one entry and one slide out, with a metal exterior and a 16-foot awning, and an interior of bunk beds and a front bedroom — detailing a Camp King bed in the private master bedroom, two double-over-double bunk beds, and a jack knife sofa with a storage ottoman alongside a booth dinette. The factory also calls out an easy-view TV and fireplace, a generous hidden kitchen pantry and the standard exterior refrigerator. Two double-over-double bunks plus the master is how it reaches eight berths in about 32 feet.

It carries the standard Avenger value build: a powder-coated drop-frame chassis with a Tuff-Coat metal exterior, a PVC roof membrane, a fully enclosed underbelly with a best-in-class pass-through, a centrally located outdoor refrigerator, a 10-cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator, a three-burner cooktop with a glass cover, a built-in convection microwave with an air fryer and factory solar prep. Prime Time publishes a 7,805-pound GVWR against the 6,413-pound dry weight, leaving a 1,392-pound cargo capacity — the tightest margin in the line — and an 805-pound dry tongue, with a fully ducted 15,000-BTU air conditioner and 42/68/34-gallon fresh/grey/black tanks. Prime Time and Forest River publish no MSRP for the line, so confirm street pricing with a dealer.

Avenger is Prime Time's high-volume value travel trailer — Tuff-Coat metal-sided, drop-frame half-ton family towables below the laminated Prime Time Tracer, and a cross-shop against Forest River's own Salem / Wildwood and Aurora, Jayco's Jay Flight SLX and Coachmen's Catalina. Six floorplans are profiled in full and linked below; the remaining plans are catalogued and shown muted. The 26DBS on this page is highlighted.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 42-gallon fresh tank is roughly 25% of the 1,392-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 26DBS with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 805 pounds is 13% of the 6,413-pound dry weight, which sits inside the 10–15% band usually quoted for stable towing. It is still a dry figure: loading the front pass-through and the fresh tank both push it up.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 7,805-pound GVWR the 26DBS is towing 1,392 pounds more than its 6,413-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 42 gallons of fresh against 68 grey and 34 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the 26DBS sits 3 of 4 in the Avenger line: 7,805 pounds against a line that runs from 7,620 to 11,215 pounds. That position is the useful thing to know, because the plans immediately either side of it are the real alternatives.

Either side of it in the same line: Avenger 25MKO is 30 pounds lighter at 7,775 lb GVWR; and Avenger 30PO is 3,410 pounds heavier at 11,215 lb GVWR.

Against the 26DBS: the Cascade 26KFC is 1 ft longer; the Cherokee Grey Wolf 23MK is 4 lb lighter and 3 ft shorter and sleeps 4 fewer. Those are differences in the published numbers only — what they cost, how they are built and how they live are separate questions each of those pages answers on its own terms.

Those are the nearest travel trailers from other lines by weight — one per line, picked by proximity on that figure and nothing else. They are listed so the same tow vehicle can be checked against real alternatives, not because they are equivalent inside; layout, build and price diverge sharply across that group.

For scale, the Avenger floorplans profiled here run 5,863 to 8,483 pounds dry and 29 to 37 feet of exterior length across 4 plans. Where a floorplan falls in that spread usually says more about which vehicle can tow it, and which site it fits, than the layout name does.

Every profiled floorplan in this line, with the full weight table, is on the Avenger line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 16 of them for the 26DBS. The rest are not shown, because the alternative is reading a figure across from a sibling floorplan or from what the segment usually does — and a number nobody published is worth less than an admitted gap.

Not published for this floorplan: interior height, tire specification. If you find one of these in a manufacturer document for this plan, it belongs on this page.

The completeness figure at the foot of this page (97%) measures the same thing on the full field set: it is a measurement of how much this floorplan’s manufacturer publishes, not of how much research went into the page.

How every figure here was sourced and checked is set out on the methodology page.