Jayco Jay Flight · 2018–201924RBS

The Jay Flight 24RBS 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 2019 24RBS, 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 2019 model year Jayco published a 7,500-pound GVWR on a 5,605-pound dry weight, 1,895 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 625-pound dry tongue weight. That dry tongue is 11% 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.

Against the 2018 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 2019 trailer is 7 model years old as of 2026, which puts it squarely in used-buyer territory. Section 05 sets out what to inspect on a travel trailer of this age — tyre date codes, roof and seam sealant, slide seals, and the soft-floor and delamination checks that separate a tidy coach from an expensive one.

How the 24RBS differs from the other 117 Jay Flight floorplans. Most distinctive first. Each rank counts only the siblings that publish that field, and a figure most of them share is left out. Not every one of these pages covers the same model years as this one (2018–2019); each figure is the one its own page prints, so a rank compares pages, not one model year.

• Fresh tank, 82 gal: shared with the 28BHBE, 28BHS and two others; of 118, 98 smaller and fifteen larger, nearest the 29RLDS, 31QBDS and four others (80 gal) and the 210QBW, 211MBW and seven others (84 gal).
• Dry tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 11.2%: shared with the 264BHW and 265MWSW; of 117, 34 smaller and 80 larger, nearest the 200MKS and 260BHW (11.1%) and the 184BS and 210QBW (11.3%).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 25.3%: shared with the 154BH; of 118, 80 smaller and 36 larger, nearest the 265MWS and 29BHDB (25.1%) and the 225MLSW (25.4%).
• Cargo capacity, 1,895 lb: shared with the 260BHW; of 118, 75 smaller and 41 larger, nearest the 294QBS (1,875 lb) and the 250BHW (1,900 lb).
• Dry tongue weight, 625 lb: 49th-lightest of 117, between the 197MB (610 lb) and the 245BHSW and 265MWSW (630 lb).
• Length, 28 ft 8 in: 50th-shortest of 118, between the 245BHS and 245BHSW (28 ft 7 in) and the 247RBS (28 ft 10 in).
• Dry weight, 5,605 lb: 59th-lightest of 118, between the 270BHS (5,590 lb) and the 255THW (5,615 lb).
• GVWR, 7,500 lb: shared with the 236TH, 240RBSW and 263RBS; of 118, 57 lower and 57 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 47 others; of 113, 25 smaller and 38 larger, nearest the 21QB and 321BDS (33 gal) and the 130RDW, 172DBW and sixteen others (40 gal).

Next to the 270BHS (2027 page), the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 24RBS is 15 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 500 lb higher, has 485 lb more cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 100 lb lighter, is 3 ft 2 in shorter, has 3 in more interior height and has a fresh tank 30 gal larger; the two publish the same grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 255THW (2024–2025 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 24RBS is 10 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 1,250 lb lower, has 1,240 lb less cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 210 lb lighter, is 1 ft 4 in shorter, has 1 ft 8 in less interior height, has a fresh tank 2 gal smaller, has a grey tank 1 gal smaller and has a black tank 1 gal smaller.

This floorplan has a published factory record for 2 model years here, 2018 to 2019. The specification does not hold still: dry weight runs from 5,505 lb (2018) to 5,605 lb (2019). The published sleeping capacity changes across the years: 4-6 in 2018, 4 - 5 in 2019. 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 2018 and 2019 24RBS. Every figure in both columns is that model year's own factory record — nothing here is carried across from the other year.

A full 82-gallon fresh tank is about 684 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 36% of the 24RBS’s 1,895 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,211 lb (242 lb per rated berth). Across 118 Jay Flight floorplans the water share runs 13% to 47%, and 17 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Jay Flight 225MLSW at 36% and Jay Flight 32BHDS at 36%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).

Closest sibling: the Jay Flight 265MWSW, nearest on the published figures. It differs on 9 of the 9 fields both publish (this plan first): length 28 ft 8 in vs 29 ft 10 in; sleeps 5 vs 6; dry weight 5,605 lb vs 5,620 lb; GVWR 7,500 lb vs 7,700 lb; cargo capacity 1,895 lb vs 2,080 lb; hitch weight 625 lb vs 630 lb; fresh tank 82 gal vs 76 gal; grey tank 39 gal vs 40 gal; black tank 39 gal vs 40 gal.

Either side of it by GVWR: Jay Flight 240RBSW matches it at 7,500 lb GVWR; Jay Flight 263RBS matches it at 7,500 lb GVWR.

All 118 Jay Flight floorplans: Jay Flight line hub.

Against the 24RBS: the Coachmen Freedom Express Ultra Lite 245RKS sleeps 1 fewer; the Jay Feather 22BH sleeps 2 more; the North Trail 250CK is 1 ft longer and sleeps 1 fewer.

11 of the 18 fields this catalogue tracks are published for the 24RBS. Not published: exterior height, slide count, axle count, tire specification, awning, refrigerator, air conditioning.

Sourcing rules: methodology.