Jayco Eagle HT · 2024–202629RLC

The Eagle HT 29RLC is the rear-living half-ton fifth wheel — dual opposing slides open the back of the coach into a wide combined kitchen and living area, with theater seating or a tri-fold sofa facing an entertainment center and fireplace. A private front bedroom with an Olympic queen sits up in the raised nose. It is a genuinely spacious couples’ fifth wheel that still aims at half-ton trucks, in a 34-foot length.

It runs 4-Star Handling — Goodyear Endurance tires, MORryde CRE-3000 suspension — with an 11,200-pound GVWR on a 9,485-pound dry weight, leaving 1,715 pounds of payload. The dry pin weight is about 1,595 pounds, within reach of a properly equipped half-ton, and the build carries the Eagle HT residential touches: Stronghold VBL™ walls, an 8-foot-6 ceiling, a 52-gallon fresh tank, an 82-gallon gray and a 10 cubic-foot refrigerator.

It sleeps four but is really a couples’ coach with room for guests, at an MSRP near $61,000. For buyers who want the open rear-living fifth-wheel experience without a three-quarter-ton truck, the dual-slide 29RLC is the comfort pick of the Eagle HT fifth wheels.

This floorplan has a verified factory record for 3 model years here, 2024 to 2026, and the specification does not hold still. Across those years GVWR ranges from 10,750 lb in 2024 to 11,200 lb in 2026, a spread of 450 lb; dry weight ranges from 9,175 lb in 2025 to 9,485 lb in 2026, a spread of 310 lb; dry pin weight ranges from 1,595 lb in 2025 to 1,690 lb in 2024, a spread of 95 lb. Even the published sleeping capacity moves (4 and 6). That is why each model year has its own page below, carrying only its own published figures. Nothing on a year page is copied across from a neighbouring year.

Jayco's Eagle is the brand's premium towable family, and it splits three ways. The full-size Eagle is the flagship fifth wheel — Stronghold VBL™ laminated walls, 5-Star Handling, the HELIX dual-15,000-BTU cooling system and a 16 cubic-foot residential refrigerator. The Eagle HT ("half-ton") line is engineered to be towable by a properly equipped half-ton truck, and Jayco offers it as both a fifth wheel and a travel trailer — lighter, 4-Star Handling with Goodyear Endurance tires, and lower pin or tongue weights. The 29RLC on this page is highlighted; each other profiled plan links to its own page. The full Eagle catalogue runs to dozens of floorplans across all three; the highest-demand layouts are detailed here and the rest are catalogued on the line hub.

This floorplan carries its water comfortably. A full 52-gallon fresh tank is roughly 25% of the 1,715-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 29RLC with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry pin weight of 1,595 pounds is 17% of this floorplan’s 9,485-pound dry weight. Fifth-wheel pin weight rides in the bed of the truck, so it comes off payload rather than off tow rating — and it rises with the trailer as you load it, not in proportion to what you put over the axles.

Nothing above changes the ceiling. Loaded to its 11,200-pound GVWR the 29RLC is towing 1,715 pounds more than its 9,485-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 52 gallons of fresh against 82 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 29RLC sits 15 of 37 in the Eagle line: 11,200 pounds against a line that runs from 8,400 to 15,200 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: Eagle 29DDB is 205 pounds lighter at 10,995 lb GVWR; and Eagle 28CRT is 200 pounds heavier at 11,400 lb GVWR.

Against the 29RLC: the Cougar 26RKE is 200 lb lighter and 3 ft shorter and sleeps 2 more; the Reflection 28RL is 205 lb lighter and 3 ft shorter; the Blackthorn 279BH is 320 lb heavier and 1 ft shorter. 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 fifth wheels 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 Eagle floorplans profiled here run 6,560 to 12,830 pounds dry and 28 to 43 feet of exterior length across 37 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 Eagle line hub.

This catalog tracks 18 specification fields per floorplan. Named sources publish 17 of them for the 29RLC. 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: awning. 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.