2026 Alliance RV Delta281BH

The 281BH is Delta’s compact family bunkhouse: a ‘BH’ layout with rear bunk beds and two entry doors — one into the main living area and one into the bunk-and-bath zone — sleeping seven on a single slide-out in a 31-foot-11 body. Two doors and a dedicated bunk room make it the Delta for a family that wants separation between the parents’ space and the kids’, in a trailer still light enough for a properly rated half-ton.

Every Delta rides a bumper-pull tandem-axle chassis with a walk-on seamless PVC roof, a double-insulated front wall, a heated and enclosed underbelly, 62 cubic feet of drop-frame pass-through storage, Goodyear Endurance tires with Counteract beads on aluminum rims with a spare, a MorRyde Step Above entry, electric auto-leveling, a 10-cubic-foot 12-volt refrigerator and a 400-watt solar package with a 30-amp MPPT controller and two air conditioners. Alliance publishes an 8,850-pound GVWR against the 7,150-pound dry weight, leaving a 1,700-pound cargo capacity and a 740-pound tongue, with a 45-gallon fresh tank and a 90-gallon grey tank. At a starting MSRP around $58,000, with street pricing below placard, the 281BH is the dual-entry family bunkhouse Delta for buyers who want a separate bunk room and a second door in a half-ton travel trailer.

Delta is Alliance RV's travel-trailer line — half-ton-friendly bumper-pull towables and a cross-shop against Grand Design's Imagine, Jayco's Jay Flight SLX, Forest River's Salem / Wildwood and Keystone's Passport. Seven floorplans are profiled in full and linked below; the remaining plans, including the new single-axle Delta Solo sub-line, are catalogued and shown muted. The 281BH on this page is highlighted.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 45-gallon fresh tank is roughly 22% of the 1,700-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 281BH with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry tongue weight of 740 pounds is 10% of the 7,150-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 8,850-pound GVWR the 281BH is towing 1,700 pounds more than its 7,150-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 45 gallons of fresh against 90 grey and 45 black, so waste capacity keeps pace with supply and the fresh tank is the constraint that ends a dry stay.

Ranked by GVWR, the 281BH sits 4 of 7 in the Delta line: 8,850 pounds against a line that runs from 5,650 to 10,450 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: Delta 262RB is 600 pounds lighter at 8,250 lb GVWR; and Delta 294RK is 400 pounds heavier at 9,250 lb GVWR.

Against the 281BH: the Jay Feather 27MK is 1 ft longer and sleeps 1 fewer; the North Trail 270CK is 1 ft longer and sleeps 3 fewer; the Range Lite 280MKI is 1 ft longer. 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 Delta floorplans profiled here run 4,689 to 8,330 pounds dry and 23 to 37 feet of exterior length across 7 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 Delta line hub.

Named sources publish 16 of the 18 specification fields this catalogue tracks for the 281BH (92% complete on the full field set).

Not published for this floorplan: exterior width, interior height, tire size (a tire description is published, a size is not). Those rows are left blank rather than copied from a sibling floorplan.

Sourcing rules: methodology.