Jayco Jay Flight · 2023295BHSW

The Jay Flight 295BHSW 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 2023 295BHSW, 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 2023 model year, which is the measurement that matters for a site pitch as well as for the road.

Jayco’s 2023 Jay Flight flyer draws the 295BHSW with a 60-by-75-inch queen bed between wardrobes, with a shelf, a closet and an entertainment center with overhead cabinets at the front. Mid-coach: a dinette and a jack-knife sofa in a slide; and a kitchen with a wardrobe, a pantry, a refrigerator, a microwave and overhead cabinets. At the rear: 48-by-80-inch double bunks with a refrigerator, and a bath with a shower. It shows one slide-out and a 20-foot awning. Outside it labels a spray port. Layouts change with options; check the unit itself.

For the 2023 model year Jayco published a 8,150-pound GVWR on a 6,355-pound dry weight, 1,795 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 780-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. The 2023 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.

This is the only 295BHSW model year with a verified factory record in this catalogue.

A 2023 trailer is 3 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 295BHSW differs from the other 122 Jay Flight floorplans. Most distinctive first. Sibling pages may cover other model years than this one (2023). How these ranks are worked out.

• 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).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 9 in: shared with the 331BTS; of 109, 75 lower and 32 taller, nearest the 263BHSW, 265RLSW and 324BDS (10 ft 8 in) and the 200MKSW, 210QBW and six others (11 ft).
• Length, 34 ft 4 in: shared with the 295BHS; of 123, 88 shorter and 33 longer, nearest the 29BHDB (34 ft 2 in) and the 280BHK (34 ft 7 in).
• Fresh tank, 76 gal: shared with the 200MKSW, 225MLSW and twelve others; of 123, 82 smaller and 26 larger, nearest the 40FKDS (53 gal) and the 29RLDS, 31QBDS and four others (80 gal).
• Dry weight, 6,355 lb: 45th-heaviest of 123, between the 263BHS (6,335 lb) and the 295BHS (6,450 lb).
• Dry tongue weight, 780 lb: 51st-heaviest of 122, between the 280BHS (775 lb) and the 263BHS (785 lb).
• GVWR, 8,150 lb: shared with the 280RKS and 285BHS; of 123, 74 lower and 46 higher, nearest the 262RLSW (8,100 lb) and the 263BHS and 263BHSW (8,200 lb).
• Cargo capacity, 1,795 lb: 54th-largest of 123, between the 402DLFT (1,790 lb) and the 242BHSW and 250BH (1,800 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 22%: shared with the 245BHSW and 34RSBS; of 123, 50 smaller and 70 larger, nearest the 270MKS (21.9%) and the 178DBS, 262RLSW and 267BHSW (22.3%).
• Dry tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 12.3%: shared with the 212QB, 240RBSW and 263BHSW; of 122, 65 smaller and 53 larger, nearest the 230FBS (12.2%) and the 172DB and 263BHS (12.4%).
• Grey tank, 39 gal: shared with the 140TB, 172DB and 48 others; of 118, 27 smaller and 40 larger, nearest the 21QB (33 gal) and the 130RDW, 172DBW and seventeen others (40 gal).

Next to the 263BHS (2025–2027 page), the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 295BHSW is 20 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 50 lb lower, has 70 lb less cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 5 lb lighter, is 1 ft 10 in longer, stands 4 in taller and has a fresh tank 24 gal larger; the two publish the same interior height, grey tank, black tank and sleeping capacity.

Next to the 295BHS, the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 295BHSW is 95 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 400 lb higher, has 495 lb more cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 35 lb lighter, stands 4 ft taller and has a fresh tank 38 gal larger; the two publish the same length, interior height, grey tank, black tank and sleeping capacity.

2023 is the only model year this catalogue holds a verified factory record for the 295BHSW. That record is published here on its own, and it is not a general specification for the floorplan: Jayco revises published weights, ratings and even tire sizes from one model year to the next, so every figure below is evidence about 2023 and about no other year.

A full 76-gallon fresh tank is about 631 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 35% of the 295BHSW’s 1,795 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,164 lb (116 lb per rated berth). Across 123 Jay Flight floorplans the water share runs 13% to 47%, and 19 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Jay Flight 242BHSW at 35% and Jay Flight 26BH at 35%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).