Jayco Jay Flight · 2018–201928RLS

The Jay Flight 28RLS 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 28RLS, 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 8,800-pound GVWR on a 6,485-pound dry weight, 2,315 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 705-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, 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 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 28RLS 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, 2,315 lb: seventeenth-largest of 118, between the 325BHT and 333BTS (2,125 lb) and the 29BHDB (2,320 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).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 26.3%: 29th-largest of 118, between the 180LK (25.9%) and the 180LKW (26.4%).
• GVWR, 8,800 lb: 34th-highest of 118, between the 255THW and 28BHS (8,750 lb) and the 335BHS (9,000 lb).
• Dry tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 10.9%: shared with the 260BH; of 117, 29 smaller and 86 larger, nearest the 170BH and 175FQW (10.8%) and the 250BH (11%).
• Dry weight, 6,485 lb: 40th-heaviest of 118, between the 295BHS (6,450 lb) and the 285BHS (6,510 lb).
• Length, 32 ft 5 in: 44th-longest of 118, between the 270BHS and 270BHSW (31 ft 10 in) and the 263BHS (32 ft 6 in).
• Dry tongue weight, 705 lb: 59th-lightest of 117, between the 242BHSW (700 lb) and the 290RLS (710 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 295BHS (2023 page), the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 28RLS is 35 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 1,050 lb higher, has 1,015 lb more cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 110 lb lighter, is 1 ft 11 in shorter and has a fresh tank 44 gal larger; the two publish the same interior height, grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 285BHS (2023–2024 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 28RLS is 25 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 650 lb higher, has 675 lb more cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 170 lb lighter, is 11 in shorter, has a fresh tank 30 gal larger and has a grey tank 39 gal smaller; 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 6,390 lb (2018) to 6,485 lb (2019); dry tongue weight runs from 700 lb (2018) to 705 lb (2019). The published sleeping capacity changes across the years: 3-6 in 2018, 4 - 6 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 6 of the published fields between the 2018 and 2019 28RLS. 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), 30% of the 28RLS’s 2,315 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,631 lb (272 lb per rated berth). Across 118 Jay Flight floorplans the water share runs 13% to 47%, and 41 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Jay Flight 29BHDB at 29% and Jay Flight 340RLK at 30%. 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 262RLSW, nearest on the published figures. It differs on 8 of the 9 fields both publish (this plan first): length 32 ft 5 in vs 31 ft 1 in; dry weight 6,485 lb vs 6,290 lb; GVWR 8,800 lb vs 8,100 lb; cargo capacity 2,315 lb vs 1,810 lb; hitch weight 705 lb vs 840 lb; fresh tank 82 gal vs 76 gal; grey tank 39 gal vs 40 gal; black tank 39 gal vs 40 gal. They match on sleeps.

Either side of it by GVWR: Jay Flight 28BHS is 50 lb lighter (8,750 lb GVWR); Jay Flight 335BHS is 200 lb heavier (9,000 lb GVWR).

All 118 Jay Flight floorplans: Jay Flight line hub.

Against the 28RLS: the Access 24RB is 2 ft shorter and sleeps 2 fewer; the Classic 28RB is 4 ft shorter and sleeps 1 fewer; the Flying Cloud 30FB Bunk is 1 ft shorter and sleeps 2 more.

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

Sourcing rules: methodology.