Jayco Jay Flight · 2021–2025236TH

The Jay Flight 236TH is one of Jayco's Jay Flight travel trailers, the mass-market nameplate and the volume seller in Jayco's towable range. This page covers one model year of it — the 2024 236TH, exactly as Jayco published it — because the numbers that decide whether your truck can pull this trailer are not the same from one year to the next.

For the 2024 model year Jayco published a 7,500-pound GVWR on a 5,060-pound dry weight, 2,440 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 885-pound dry tongue weight. That dry tongue is 17% of the dry weight, above the 10–15% band conventionally quoted for a bumper-pull trailer. Tongue weight is not fixed — it moves with how the trailer is loaded, and weight added ahead of the axles raises it. A tongue load in that range wants a weight-distribution hitch, and the tow vehicle's tongue-weight limit is a separate number from its trailer-weight limit — check the loaded tongue against the hitch receiver's rating and the vehicle's payload, not against the tow rating alone. The 2024 trailer left the factory on ST205/75R14'D' tyres; the load range in that code is part of the axle rating and a replacement set has to match it.

Against the 2023 build of the same floorplan, 5 published fields moved. The full comparison is in section 02, and it is drawn from two separate verified factory records rather than from one record and an assumption about the other.

A 2024 trailer is close to current as of 2026, but section 05 still applies: check it against its build date rather than its model year. Jayco commonly builds a model year well before the calendar year turns, and the tyre date codes have to be read against the build month, not the badge.

How the 236TH differs from the other 122 Jay Flight floorplans. Most distinctive first. Sibling pages may cover other model years than this one (2021–2025). How these ranks are worked out.

• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 32.5%: fourth-largest of 123, between the 211MBW (32.3%) and the 236THW (34.6%).
• Dry tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 17.5%: largest of 122, level with the 402RLTS; next is the 236THW (17%).
• Cargo capacity, 2,440 lb: twelfth-largest of 123, between the 34RLOK (2,380 lb) and the 34RSBS (2,470 lb).
• Exterior height, 9 ft 10 in: shared with the 224BH, 264BH and 264BHW; of 109, 25 lower and 80 taller, nearest the 178DBSW (9 ft 8 in) and the 212QB, 224BHW and two others (9 ft 11 in).
• Dry tongue weight, 885 lb: shared with the 265TH and 294QBS; of 122, 92 lighter and 27 heavier, nearest the 330TBS (880 lb) and the 236THW (890 lb).
• Sleeping capacity, 4: shared with the 130BH, 130BHW and 23 others; of 110, five smaller and 79 larger, nearest the 140TB, 140TBW and three others (2) and the 174BH, 212QB and four others (5).
• Dry weight, 5,060 lb: 45th-lightest of 123, between the 200MKS (4,965 lb) and the 274BH (5,165 lb).
• Length, 28 ft 4 in: shared with the 236THW; of 123, 46 shorter and 75 longer, nearest the 235MBH and 235MBHW (27 ft 10 in) and the 245BHS and 245BHSW (28 ft 7 in).
• GVWR, 7,500 lb: shared with the 240RBSW, 24RBS and 263RBS; of 123, 58 lower and 61 higher, nearest the 235MBHW (7,300 lb) and the 261BHS, 261BHSW and two others (7,600 lb).
• Grey tank, 39 gal: shared with the 140TB, 172DB and 48 others; of 118, 27 smaller and 40 larger, nearest the 21QB (33 gal) and the 130RDW, 172DBW and seventeen others (40 gal).
• Fresh tank, 52 gal: shared with the 200MKS, 210QB and 47 others; of 123, 31 smaller and 42 larger, nearest the 40LOFT (51 gal) and the 40FKDS (53 gal).

Next to the 200MKS (2025–2027 page), the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 236TH is 95 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 1,000 lb higher, has 905 lb more cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 335 lb heavier, is 3 ft 9 in longer, stands 1 ft 4 in lower and sleeps two more; the two publish the same interior height, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 274BH (2023–2024 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 236TH is 105 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 1,000 lb higher, has 1,105 lb more cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 225 lb heavier, is 2 ft 3 in shorter, stands 1 in lower, has a grey tank 39 gal smaller and sleeps five fewer; the two publish the same interior height, fresh tank and black tank.

This floorplan has a published factory record for 4 model years here, 2021 to 2025. The specification does not hold still: dry weight runs from 4,890 lb (2021) to 5,060 lb (2025); dry tongue weight runs from 830 lb (2021) to 930 lb (2025). Each year’s complete record is printed separately below, carrying only that year’s own published figures and source. Nothing is copied across from a neighbouring year.

Jayco changed 5 of the published fields between the 2023 and 2024 236TH. Every figure in both columns is that model year's own factory record — nothing here is carried across from the other year.

A full 52-gallon fresh tank is about 432 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 18% of the 236TH’s 2,440 lb cargo capacity, leaving 2,008 lb (502 lb per rated berth). Across 123 Jay Flight floorplans the water share runs 13% to 47%, and 119 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Jay Flight 40FKDS at 18% and Jay Flight 175BHW at 19%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).