Jayco Jay Flight · 2023–2024247RBS

The Jay Flight 247RBS 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 247RBS, 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. Jayco publishes it at 8' 0" wide closed and 11' 0" with the slide-outs run out for the 2024 model year, which is the measurement that matters for a site pitch as well as for the road.

For the 2024 model year Jayco published a 6,750-pound GVWR on a 5,480-pound dry weight, 1,270 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 650-pound dry tongue weight. That dry tongue is 12% of the dry weight, inside 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, 6 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 247RBS differs from the other 122 Jay Flight floorplans. Most distinctive first. Sibling pages may cover other model years than this one (2023–2024). How these ranks are worked out.

• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 18.8%: eighteenth-smallest of 123, between the 334RTS (18.3%) and the 263RBS (19%).
• Cargo capacity, 1,270 lb: 26th-smallest of 123, between the 224BH (1,265 lb) and the 295BHS (1,300 lb).
• Sleeping capacity, 5: shared with the 174BH, 212QB and three others; of 110, 31 smaller and 73 larger, nearest the 130BH, 130BHW and 24 others (4) and the 170BH, 172DB and seventeen others (6).
• GVWR, 6,750 lb: 44th-lowest of 123, between the 200MKS, 200MKSW and four others (6,500 lb) and the 260BHW (6,800 lb).
• Length, 28 ft 10 in: 52nd-shortest of 123, between the 24RBS (28 ft 8 in) and the 26BH (29 ft 3 in).
• Dry weight, 5,480 lb: 55th-lightest of 123, between the 245BHSW (5,460 lb) and the 242BHS (5,490 lb).
• Dry tongue weight, 650 lb: 56th-lightest of 122, between the 235MBH (645 lb) and the 274BH (660 lb).
• Dry tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 11.9%: shared with the 21QB, 240RBS and two others; of 122, 52 smaller and 65 larger, nearest the 264BH, 28BHS and two others (11.8%) and the 29BHDB, 29RLDS and 334RTS (12%).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 5 in: shared with the 211MBW, 240RBS and ten others; of 109, 47 lower and 49 taller, nearest the 235MBH, 242BHS and 263RBS (10 ft 4 in) and the 210QB, 235MBHW and four others (10 ft 6 in).
• 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 245BHSW (2026–2027 page), the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 247RBS is 20 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 250 lb lower, has 270 lb less cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 20 lb heavier, is 3 in longer, stands 7 in lower, has a fresh tank 24 gal smaller, has a grey tank 1 gal smaller, has a black tank 1 gal smaller and sleeps one fewer; the two publish the same interior height.

Next to the 242BHS (2021–2023 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 247RBS is 10 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 250 lb lower, has 240 lb less cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 120 lb lighter, is 6 in shorter, stands 1 in taller, has a fresh tank 14 gal larger and sleeps three fewer; the two publish the same interior height, grey tank and black tank.

This floorplan has a published factory record for 2 model years here, 2023 to 2024. The specification does not hold still: dry weight runs from 5,340 lb (2023) to 5,480 lb (2024); dry tongue weight runs from 645 lb (2023) to 650 lb (2024). 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 6 of the published fields between the 2023 and 2024 247RBS. 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), 34% of the 247RBS’s 1,270 lb cargo capacity, leaving 838 lb (168 lb per rated berth). Across 123 Jay Flight floorplans the water share runs 13% to 47%, and 26 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Jay Flight 170BH at 33% and Jay Flight 224BH at 34%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).