Jayco Jay Flight · 2023–2025280BHK

The Jay Flight 280BHK 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 2025 280BHK, 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 2025 model year, which is the measurement that matters for a site pitch as well as for the road.

For the 2025 model year Jayco published a 8,250-pound GVWR on a 6,760-pound dry weight, 1,490 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 770-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. The 2025 trailer left the factory on ST225/75R15'E' tyres; the load range in that code is part of the axle rating and a replacement set has to match it.

Against the 2024 build of the same floorplan, 4 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 2025 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 280BHK differs from the other 122 Jay Flight floorplans. Most distinctive first. Sibling pages may cover other model years than this one (2023–2025). How these ranks are worked out.

• Grey tank, 78 gal: shared with the 240RBS, 240RBSW and nine others; of 118, 104 smaller and two larger, nearest the 333BTS, 334RTS and two others (71.5 gal) and the 263BHSW (80 gal).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 18.1%: shared with the 172DB; of 123, fourteen smaller and 107 larger, nearest the 324BDS (17.7%) and the 334RTS (18.3%).
• Sleeping capacity, 10: shared with the 250BH, 250BHW and seventeen others; of 110, 84 smaller and six larger, nearest the 264BH, 264BHW and three others (9) and the 321BDS, 324BDS and two others (11).
• Length, 34 ft 7 in: 33rd-longest of 123, between the 295BHS and 295BHSW (34 ft 4 in) and the 290RLS (34 ft 9 in).
• Dry weight, 6,760 lb: shared with the 29RLDS; of 123, 86 lighter and 35 heavier, nearest the 28BHS (6,650 lb) and the 294QBS (6,775 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 1,490 lb: 40th-smallest of 123, between the 224BHW (1,480 lb) and the 242BHS (1,510 lb).
• GVWR, 8,250 lb: 44th-highest of 123, between the 263BHS and 263BHSW (8,200 lb) and the 265TH, 280BHS and 280BHSW (8,500 lb).
• Dry tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 11.4%: shared with the 180LKW; of 122, 39 smaller and 81 larger, nearest the 184BS and 210QBW (11.3%) and the 170BHW, 224BH and three others (11.5%).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 7 in: shared with the 270MKS, 280RKS and three others; of 109, 66 lower and 37 taller, nearest the 210QB, 235MBHW and four others (10 ft 6 in) and the 263BHSW, 265RLSW and 324BDS (10 ft 8 in).
• Dry tongue weight, 770 lb: shared with the 242BHS, 263BHSW and 267BHS; of 122, 66 lighter and 52 heavier, nearest the 270BHSW (760 lb) and the 280BHS (775 lb).
• 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 28BHS (2018–2019 page), the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 280BHK is 110 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 500 lb lower, has 610 lb less cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 18 lb lighter, is 1 ft 5 in longer and has a fresh tank 30 gal smaller; the two publish the same interior height and black tank.

Next to the 29RLDS (2018 page), the floorplan with the same dry weight, the 280BHK has a GVWR 1,000 lb lower, has 1,000 lb less cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 40 lb lighter, is 1 ft 5 in longer, has a fresh tank 28 gal smaller and has a grey tank 39 gal larger; the two publish the same dry weight, interior height and black tank.

Next to the 294QBS (2021–2025 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 280BHK is 15 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 400 lb lower, has 385 lb less cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 115 lb lighter, is 1 ft shorter and has a grey tank 39 gal larger; the two publish the same exterior height, interior height, fresh tank, black tank and sleeping capacity.

This floorplan has a published factory record for 3 model years here, 2023 to 2025. The specification does not hold still: dry weight runs from 6,650 lb (2023) to 6,760 lb (2025); dry tongue weight runs from 735 lb (2023) to 800 lb (2024). The published sleeping capacity changes across the years: up to 9 in 2023–2024, up to 10 in 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 4 of the published fields between the 2024 and 2025 280BHK. 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), 29% of the 280BHK’s 1,490 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,058 lb (106 lb per rated berth). Across 123 Jay Flight floorplans the water share runs 13% to 47%, and 42 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Jay Flight 280BHSW at 29% and Jay Flight 29BHDB at 29%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).