Jayco Jay Flight · 2018–201929RKS

The Jay Flight 29RKS 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 29RKS, 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 9,500-pound GVWR on a 6,895-pound dry weight, 2,605 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 813-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 29RKS 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, 2,605 lb: seventh-largest of 118, between the 38BHDS (2,600 lb) and the 31QBDS (2,625 lb).
• Fresh tank, 86 gal: shared with the 32BHDS, 32TSBH and 38FDDS; of 118, 112 smaller and two larger, nearest the 210QBW, 211MBW and seven others (84 gal) and the 21QB and 26BH (90 gal).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 27.4%: 22nd-largest of 118, between the 130RD (27.3%) and the 212QBW (27.5%).
• GVWR, 9,500 lb: 27th-highest of 118, between the 295TBS and 330TBS (9,300 lb) and the 290RLS and 324BDS (9,600 lb).
• Dry weight, 6,895 lb: 31st-heaviest of 118, between the 294QBS (6,775 lb) and the 335BHS (6,925 lb).
• Length, 33 ft 9 in: 37th-longest of 118, between the 28BHBE (33 ft 5 in) and the 280RKS (33 ft 10 in).
• Dry tongue weight, 813 lb: 39th-heaviest of 117, between the 29RLDS (810 lb) and the 262RLS and 295BHS (815 lb).
• Dry tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 11.8%: shared with the 264BH, 28BHS 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 294QBS (2021–2025 page), the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 29RKS is 120 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 850 lb higher, has 730 lb more cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 72 lb lighter, is 1 ft 10 in shorter and has a fresh tank 34 gal larger; the two publish the same interior height and black tank.

Next to the 335BHS (2027 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 29RKS is 30 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 500 lb higher, has 530 lb more cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 162 lb lighter, is 3 ft 10 in shorter and has a fresh tank 34 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 6,770 lb (2018) to 6,895 lb (2019); dry tongue weight runs from 800 lb (2018) to 813 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 7 of the published fields between the 2018 and 2019 29RKS. Every figure in both columns is that model year's own factory record — nothing here is carried across from the other year.

A full 86-gallon fresh tank is about 717 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 28% of the 29RKS’s 2,605 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,888 lb (315 lb per rated berth). Across 118 Jay Flight floorplans the water share runs 13% to 47%, and 50 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Jay Flight 154BH at 27% and Jay Flight 140TB at 28%. 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 28BHS, nearest on the published figures. It differs on 7 of the 9 fields both publish (this plan first): length 33 ft 9 in vs 33 ft 2 in; sleeps 6 vs 10; dry weight 6,895 lb vs 6,650 lb; GVWR 9,500 lb vs 8,750 lb; cargo capacity 2,605 lb vs 2,100 lb; hitch weight 813 lb vs 788 lb; fresh tank 86 gal vs 82 gal. They match on grey tank and black tank.

Either side of it by GVWR: Jay Flight 330TBS is 200 lb lighter (9,300 lb GVWR); Jay Flight 290RLS is 100 lb heavier (9,600 lb GVWR).

All 118 Jay Flight floorplans: Jay Flight line hub.

Against the 29RKS: the Coachmen Freedom Express Ultra Lite 292BHDS sleeps 2 more; the Jay Flight SLX 280FKS sleeps 3 fewer; the White Hawk 32BH is 4 ft longer and sleeps 3 more.

11 of the 18 fields this catalogue tracks are published for the 29RKS. 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.