Jayco Jay Flight · 2018–201928BHS

The Jay Flight 28BHS 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 28BHS, 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 8,750-pound GVWR on a 6,650-pound dry weight, 2,100 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 788-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.

Against the 2018 build of the same floorplan, 7 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 28BHS 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, 2,100 lb: 22nd-largest of 118, between the 265MWSW (2,080 lb) and the 26BH (2,110 lb).
• Fresh tank, 82 gal: shared with the 24RBS, 28BHBE 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 weight, 6,650 lb: 35th-heaviest of 118, between the 28BHBE (6,615 lb) and the 280BHK and 29RLDS (6,760 lb).
• GVWR, 8,750 lb: shared with the 255THW; of 118, 82 lower and 34 higher, nearest the 294QBS (8,650 lb) and the 28RLS (8,800 lb).
• Length, 33 ft 2 in: shared with the 29RLDS; of 118, 77 shorter and 39 longer, nearest the 263BHSW (32 ft 7 in) and the 285BHS (33 ft 4 in).
• Dry tongue weight, 788 lb: 45th-heaviest of 117, between the 263BHS (785 lb) and the 265RLSW and 267BHSW (790 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 24%: 50th-largest of 118, between the 183RB (23.9%) and the 261BHSW (24.1%).
• Dry tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 11.8%: shared with the 264BH, 29RKS and 31QBDS; of 117, 48 smaller and 65 larger, nearest the 250BHW and 295TBS (11.7%) and the 21QB, 240RBS and three others (11.9%).

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

Next to the 280BHK (2023–2025 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 28BHS is 110 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 500 lb higher, has 610 lb more cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 18 lb heavier, is 1 ft 5 in shorter and has a fresh tank 30 gal larger; the two publish the same interior height 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 6,645 lb (2018) to 6,650 lb (2019); dry tongue weight runs from 788 lb (2019) to 800 lb (2018). The published sleeping capacity changes across the years: 8-10 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 7 of the published fields between the 2018 and 2019 28BHS. 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), 33% of the 28BHS’s 2,100 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,416 lb (142 lb per rated berth). Across 118 Jay Flight floorplans the water share runs 13% to 47%, and 29 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Jay Flight 263BHSW at 33% and Jay Flight 170BH at 33%. 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 263BHSW, nearest on the published figures. It differs on 8 of the 9 fields both publish (this plan first): length 33 ft 2 in vs 32 ft 7 in; dry weight 6,650 lb vs 6,250 lb; GVWR 8,750 lb vs 8,200 lb; cargo capacity 2,100 lb vs 1,950 lb; hitch weight 788 lb vs 770 lb; fresh tank 82 gal vs 76 gal; grey tank 78 gal vs 80 gal; black tank 39 gal vs 40 gal. They match on sleeps.

Either side of it by GVWR: Jay Flight 255THW matches it at 8,750 lb GVWR; Jay Flight 28RLS is 50 lb heavier (8,800 lb GVWR).

All 118 Jay Flight floorplans: Jay Flight line hub.

Against the 28BHS: the Puma Tracks 3150TBSS is 7 lb lighter and 4 ft longer; the Coachmen Catalina 283RKS is 14 lb lighter and sleeps 6 fewer; the Access 24RB is 50 lb heavier and 3 ft shorter and sleeps 6 fewer.

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

Values marked with an asterisk are arithmetic on published figures or come from a single source; the flag travels into the downloadable spec sheet.

Sourcing rules: methodology.