01 What Coachmen publishes for the Clipper Camping Trailers
Coachmen RV, a division of Forest River, Inc., of Middlebury, Indiana, lists 20 Clipper Camping Trailers camping trailers in its Clipper camping-trailer brochures (filed in Coachmen’s year folders; the brochures print no year). Coachmen prints a dry weight for every one profiled here, and each has a page of its own. It prints a GVWR for every one too. It prints a net carrying capacity for 19; on the 19 that carry both that and a GVWR, the dry weight plus the carrying capacity equals the GVWR exactly on 19. (How the data is verified.)
02 Coachmen Clipper Camping Trailers models
Coachmen Express · 2 models
| Model | Dry weight | Cargo (CCC) | GVWR | Tongue | Length | Sleeps | On this site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clipper Express 9.0 | 761 lb | 516 lb | 1,277 lb | 77 lb | 12' 10" | 2 | Profiled |
| Clipper Express 12.0TD | 1,964 lb | 1,786 lb | 3,750 lb | 250 lb | 16' 9" | 3 | Profiled |
Coachmen Teardrops · 6 models
| Model | Dry weight | Cargo (CCC) | GVWR | Tongue | Length | Sleeps | On this site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clipper Teardrops ESCAPE9.0TD | 1,459 lb | 691 lb | 2,150 lb | 150 lb | 14'-2" | 2 | Profiled |
| Clipper Teardrops 9.0TD | 1,587 lb | 585 lb | 2,172 lb | 172 lb | 14'-2" | 2 | Profiled |
| Clipper Teardrops EXPLORE9.0TD | 1,724 lb | 521 lb | 2,245 lb | 245 lb | 14'-2" | 2 | Profiled |
| Clipper Teardrops 12.0TDXL | 2,147 lb | 1,573 lb | 3,720 lb | 220 lb | 17'-5" | 3 | Profiled |
| Clipper Teardrops 12.0TDMAX | 2,164 lb | 1,556 lb | 3,720 lb | 220 lb | 17'-5" | 3 | Profiled |
| Clipper Teardrops 12.0TDPRO | 2,493 lb | 1,347 lb | 3,840 lb | 340 lb | 17'-5" | 3 | Profiled |
Coachmen LS · 4 models
| Model | Dry weight | Cargo (CCC) | GVWR | Tongue | Length | Sleeps | On this site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clipper LS 860LS | 1,577 lb | Not published by Coachmen | 2,942 lb | 203 lb | 12'-2" | 4 | Profiled |
| Clipper LS 806XLS | 1,642 lb | 1,255 lb | 2,897 lb | 167 lb | 12'-11" | 6 | Profiled |
| Clipper LS 107LS | 1,801 lb | 1,137 lb | 2,938 lb | 208 lb | 13'-2" | 7 | Profiled |
| Clipper LS 128LS | 2,204 lb | 1,019 lb | 3,223 lb | 223 lb | 17'-9" | 8 | Profiled |
Coachmen Sport · 4 models
| Model | Dry weight | Cargo (CCC) | GVWR | Tongue | Length | Sleeps | On this site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clipper Sport 860QS | 1,577 lb | 1,365 lb | 2,942 lb | 203 lb | 12' 2" | 4 | Profiled |
| Clipper Sport 106 | 1,727 lb | 1,177 lb | 2,904 lb | 174 lb | 12'8" | 6 | Profiled |
| Clipper Sport 108ST | 1,863 lb | 824 lb | 2,687 lb | 187 lb | 16'-10" | 7 | Profiled |
| Clipper Sport 125ST | 2,396 lb | 845 lb | 3,241 lb | 241 lb | 17' 9" | 8 | Profiled |
Coachmen V-Trec · 3 models
| Model | Dry weight | Cargo (CCC) | GVWR | Tongue | Length | Sleeps | On this site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clipper V-Trec V1 | 2,394 lb | 1,380 lb | 3,774 lb | 274 lb | 17' 2" | 6 | Profiled |
| Clipper V-Trec V2 | 2,581 lb | 1,209 lb | 3,790 lb | 290 lb | 18' 3" | 6 | Profiled |
| Clipper V-Trec V3 | 3,217 lb | 1,210 lb | 4,427 lb | 427 lb | 21' 8" | 6 | Profiled |
Coachmen Classic · 1 model
| Model | Dry weight | Cargo (CCC) | GVWR | Tongue | Length | Sleeps | On this site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clipper Classic 1285SST | 2,840 lb | 456 lb | 3,296 lb | 296 lb | 19' | 6 | Profiled |
Read from Coachmen’s Clipper camping-trailer brochures (filed in Coachmen’s year folders; the brochures print no year), 7 Nov 2026. “Not published” means the maker prints no figure; nothing is filled from another model, year or dealer.
03 Reading Coachmen’s figures
A maker’s published weight is for a base trailer; options and dealer-installed equipment add weight to any particular unit. The federal weight label inside the trailer carries its own unloaded weight, cargo carrying capacity and GVWR (49 CFR 567 and 571.120): read it on the unit itself before any towing decision.
04 Documents
05 Recalls
No recall campaign is filed under the name Clipper Camping Trailers. That is a filing convention, not a clean record: NHTSA files this roster under its parent line, Clipper, so the campaigns that affect these floorplans are listed there.
Coverage is not complete: this list is a starting point, not a clearance (how it is built), so check a specific VIN at NHTSA before you buy and again before you tow.
NHTSA files these as “Clipper Camping Trailer” (24V721000, 24V722000, 24V884000 and 24V912000, model years 2024–2025); those four campaigns are counted on the Clipper page with the rest of the Clipper record.
06 Owner-reported problems
A sweep of NHTSA’s complete complaint file — every safety-defect complaint NHTSA has received since 1 January 1995, matched on NHTSA’s own model field under every name this site publishes for the line — found no complaint naming this line. Treat that as no report found, not as a clean record: owners file under whatever name they were sold, and a newer or lower-volume line simply has fewer owners to file.
How this count is drawn. A report is counted here only when NHTSA’s own model field names this line. What the owner typed in the description is never used to attribute a report: our line names are ordinary English words, and an owner writing “imagine my surprise when the axle went” or naming the state of Montana is not reporting a Grand Design Imagine or a Keystone Montana.
Read these as reports, not as findings. Complaints are submitted by owners and NHTSA does not verify them; no complaint here has been confirmed as a defect, and none of them is a recall. The sample is also self-selected — only owners motivated to file appear in it — so a high count tracks how many units a line sold at least as much as how well it was built. Use the pattern, not the total: a component that keeps recurring is worth inspecting on any used unit. File or search complaints at NHTSA.
How these floorplans changed, model year by model year
This summary is built only from the maker records this site holds for the floorplans this page lists (Clipper Camping Trailers): 47 floorplan-year records covering 20 floorplans and the model years 2019 to 2023. Each floorplan page shows its own record and its earlier-year records in full. A model year with few floorplans here means this site holds few maker records for it, not that few were built; weights are the unloaded (dry) weights each record prints.
| Model year | Floorplans recorded | Unloaded weight range | Median |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 10 | 761 lb–3,217 lb | 2,022 lb |
| 2020 | 12 | 761 lb–3,217 lb | 2,084 lb |
| 2021 | 13 | 1,418 lb–3,217 lb | 2,204 lb |
| 2023 | 12 | 1,459 lb–2,840 lb | 1,832 lb |
Year over year, on the same floorplan codes:
- 2019 → 2020: of the 9 floorplans recorded in both years, the printed unloaded weight went up on 1, down on 0 and stayed the same on 8 (median change zero).
- 2020 → 2021: of the 10 floorplans recorded in both years, the printed unloaded weight went up on 0, down on 0 and stayed the same on 10 (median change zero).
- 2021 → 2023: of the 8 floorplans recorded in both years, the printed unloaded weight went up on 1, down on 1 and stayed the same on 6 (median change zero).