Jayco Eagle SLE · 2025–202728BHU

The Jayco Eagle SLE 28BHU is a fifth wheel in the MY2027 Eagle SLE roster. Jayco publishes a dry weight of 8,540 pounds against a 9,995-pound GVWR, and the two tie out exactly with the published 1,455-pound cargo carrying capacity — 8,540 + 1,455 = 9,995. That arithmetic is checked on every plan in this catalogue, and a plan whose own figures disagree is catalogued without a page rather than quietly reconciled.

The dry pin weight is 1,600 pounds, or 19% of the dry weight. Fifth-wheel pin loads land in the truck bed and count against payload, not against the receiver rating, so the number that matters is your truck’s remaining payload with passengers and gear aboard. Payload is 1,455 pounds, 15% of GVWR — that is the ceiling for water, propane, cargo and any dealer-fitted equipment combined. Fresh water alone at 51 gallons is about 425 pounds when full.

Tanks are 51 gallons fresh, 82 grey and 45 black, and the factory lists ST225/75R15'E' tires. Interior height is 8' 5" and the exterior measures 8' 1" wide by 12' 4" tall — check that height against your own garage, and remember an air-conditioner shroud adds to it. This page covers the MY2027 28BHU only. Jayco’s figures move between model years — measured on one Eagle floorplan across five consecutive years, 20 of 28 published fields changed, including tire size and a 290-pound swing in dry pin weight — so nothing here is carried over from a neighbouring year, and no year is shown that Jayco has not published for this code. Jayco publishes no overall exterior length for this floorplan in MY2027. The row says so rather than carrying the figure from a sibling floorplan or from another model year — measured on this same line, published fields move year to year, so a neighbour’s number is a guess wearing a measurement’s clothes.

This floorplan has a verified factory record for 3 model years here, 2025 to 2027, and the specification does not hold still. Across those years dry weight ranges from 8,420 lb in 2025 to 8,540 lb in 2027, a spread of 120 lb; dry pin weight ranges from 1,585 lb in 2025 to 1,605 lb in 2026, a spread of 20 lb. 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 28BHU 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 51-gallon fresh tank is roughly 29% of the 1,455-pound cargo capacity, leaving the 28BHU with a usable gear budget even when you tow full.

The published dry pin weight of 1,600 pounds is 19% of this floorplan’s 8,540-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 9,995-pound GVWR the 28BHU is towing 1,455 pounds more than its 8,540-pound dry figure, and that is the number your vehicle has to be rated for — not the brochure weight.

Tank balance is generous here: 51 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 28BHU sits 8 of 37 in the Eagle line: 9,995 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 26RU matches it exactly at 9,995 lb GVWR; and Eagle 28RKS matches it exactly at 9,995 lb GVWR.

3 other Eagle plans share this floorplan’s 9,995 lb GVWR, so the ranking above separates plans that tow to the same ceiling. On a shared chassis the figure that actually differs between them is cargo capacity and where the weight sits, not the rating.

Against the 28BHU: the Arctic Wolf 27SGS sleeps 4 fewer; the Reflection 22RK sleeps 4 fewer; the Blackthorn 229RK is 50 lb lighter. 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 12 of them for the 28BHU. 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: exterior length, slide count, axle count, awning, refrigerator, air conditioning. 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 (100%) 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.