Jayco Jay Flight · 2018–201928BHBE

The Jay Flight 28BHBE 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 28BHBE, 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 9,250-pound GVWR on a 6,615-pound dry weight, 2,635 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 635-pound dry tongue weight. That dry tongue is 10% of the dry weight, below 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. Check the loaded tongue against the hitch receiver's rating and the tow vehicle's payload rather than 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 28BHBE 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.

• Cargo capacity, 2,635 lb: fifth-largest of 118, between the 31QBDS (2,625 lb) and the 38FDDS (2,670 lb).
• Dry tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 9.6%: eighth-smallest of 117, between the 170FQW (9.5%) and the 130BH and 195RB (9.8%).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 28.5%: seventeenth-largest of 118, between the 260BHW (27.9%) and the 175BH (28.6%).
• Fresh tank, 82 gal: shared with the 24RBS, 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).
• GVWR, 9,250 lb: shared with the 29BHDB and 29RLDS; of 118, 86 lower and 29 higher, nearest the 335BHS (9,000 lb) and the 295TBS and 330TBS (9,300 lb).
• Dry weight, 6,615 lb: 36th-heaviest of 118, between the 280RKS (6,525 lb) and the 28BHS (6,650 lb).
• Length, 33 ft 5 in: 38th-longest of 118, between the 285BHS (33 ft 4 in) and the 29RKS (33 ft 9 in).
• Dry tongue weight, 635 lb: 52nd-lightest of 117, between the 245BHSW and 265MWSW (630 lb) and the 245BHS (640 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 280RKS (2023–2024 page), the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 28BHBE is 90 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 1,100 lb higher, has 1,010 lb more cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 215 lb lighter, is 5 in shorter and has a fresh tank 30 gal larger; the two publish the same interior height, grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 28BHS, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 28BHBE is 35 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 500 lb higher, has 535 lb more cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 153 lb lighter and is 3 in longer; the two publish the same interior height, fresh tank and black tank.

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 6,515 lb (2018) to 6,615 lb (2019). The published sleeping capacity changes across the years: 9-10 in 2018, 8 - 10 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 28BHBE. 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), 26% of the 28BHBE’s 2,635 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,951 lb (195 lb per rated berth). Across 118 Jay Flight floorplans the water share runs 13% to 47%, and 64 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Jay Flight 130RDW at 26% and Jay Flight 130RD at 26%. 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 31QBDS, nearest on the published figures. It differs on 7 of the 9 fields both publish (this plan first): length 33 ft 5 in vs 35 ft 10 in; dry weight 6,615 lb vs 7,625 lb; GVWR 9,250 lb vs 10,250 lb; cargo capacity 2,635 lb vs 2,625 lb; hitch weight 635 lb vs 900 lb; fresh tank 82 gal vs 80 gal; grey tank 39 gal vs 41 gal. They match on sleeps and black tank.

Either side of it by GVWR: Jay Flight 335BHS is 250 lb lighter (9,000 lb GVWR); Jay Flight 29BHDB matches it at 9,250 lb GVWR.

All 118 Jay Flight floorplans: Jay Flight line hub.

Against the 28BHBE: the Delta 294RK sleeps 6 fewer; the Puma 310RK is 13 lb heavier and 2 ft longer and sleeps 6 fewer; the Coachmen Catalina 293QBCK is 14 lb heavier and sleeps 4 fewer.

11 of the 18 fields this catalogue tracks are published for the 28BHBE. Not published: exterior height, slide count, axle count, tire specification, awning, refrigerator, air conditioning.

Sourcing rules: methodology.