Jayco Jay Flight · 201829RLDS

The Jay Flight 29RLDS 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 2018 29RLDS, 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 2018 model year Jayco published a 9,250-pound GVWR on a 6,760-pound dry weight, 2,490 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 810-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.

This is the earliest 29RLDS model year with a verified factory record in this catalogue. No other model year of the 29RLDS has a verified factory record in this catalogue yet.

A 2018 trailer is 8 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 29RLDS 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); each figure is the one its own page prints, so a rank compares pages, not one model year.

• Cargo capacity, 2,490 lb: shared with the 40FKDS; of 118, 108 smaller and eight larger, nearest the 34RSBS (2,470 lb) and the 38BHDS (2,600 lb).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 26.9%: shared with the 260BH; of 118, 92 smaller and 24 larger, nearest the 140TBW (26.7%) and the 265MWSW (27%).
• Fresh tank, 80 gal: shared with the 31QBDS, 33RBTS and three others; of 118, 92 smaller and twenty larger, nearest the 200MKSW, 225MLSW and twelve others (76 gal) and the 24RBS, 28BHBE and three others (82 gal).
• GVWR, 9,250 lb: shared with the 28BHBE and 29BHDB; of 118, 86 lower and 29 higher, nearest the 335BHS (9,000 lb) and the 295TBS and 330TBS (9,300 lb).
• Dry weight, 6,760 lb: shared with the 280BHK; of 118, 84 lighter and 32 heavier, nearest the 28BHS (6,650 lb) and the 294QBS (6,775 lb).
• Dry tongue weight, 810 lb: 40th-heaviest of 117, between the 261BHSW (805 lb) and the 29RKS (813 lb).
• Length, 33 ft 2 in: shared with the 28BHS; of 118, 77 shorter and 39 longer, nearest the 263BHSW (32 ft 7 in) and the 285BHS (33 ft 4 in).
• Dry tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 12%: shared with the 29BHDB and 334RTS; of 117, 57 smaller and 57 larger, nearest the 21QB, 240RBS and three others (11.9%) and the 140TBW, 224BHW and 330TBS (12.1%).
• 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 28BHS (2018–2019 page), the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 29RLDS is 110 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 500 lb higher, has 390 lb more cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 22 lb heavier and has a fresh tank 2 gal smaller; the two publish the same length, interior height and black tank.

Next to the 280BHK (2023–2025 page), the floorplan with the same dry weight, the 29RLDS has a GVWR 1,000 lb higher, has 1,000 lb more cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 40 lb heavier, is 1 ft 5 in shorter, has a fresh tank 28 gal larger and has a grey tank 39 gal smaller; the two publish the same dry weight, interior height and black tank.

Next to the 294QBS (2021–2025 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 29RLDS is 15 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 600 lb higher, has 615 lb more cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 75 lb lighter, is 2 ft 5 in shorter and has a fresh tank 28 gal larger; the two publish the same interior height, grey tank and black tank.

2018 is the only model year this catalogue holds a verified factory record for the 29RLDS. 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 2018 and about no other year.

A full 80-gallon fresh tank is about 667 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 27% of the 29RLDS’s 2,490 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,823 lb (456 lb per rated berth). Across 118 Jay Flight floorplans the water share runs 13% to 47%, and 55 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Jay Flight 225MLS at 27% and Jay Flight 38FDDS at 27%. 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 28RLS, nearest on the published figures. It differs on 7 of the 9 fields both publish (this plan first): length 33 ft 2 in vs 32 ft 5 in; sleeps 4 vs 6; dry weight 6,760 lb vs 6,485 lb; GVWR 9,250 lb vs 8,800 lb; cargo capacity 2,490 lb vs 2,315 lb; hitch weight 810 lb vs 705 lb; fresh tank 80 gal vs 82 gal. They match on grey tank and black tank.

Either side of it by GVWR: Jay Flight 29BHDB matches it at 9,250 lb GVWR; Jay Flight 295TBS is 50 lb heavier (9,300 lb GVWR).

All 118 Jay Flight floorplans: Jay Flight line hub.

Against the 29RLDS: the Puma 310RK is 13 lb heavier and 2 ft longer; the Coachmen Catalina 293QBCK is 14 lb heavier and sleeps 2 more.

11 of the 18 fields this catalogue tracks are published for the 29RLDS. Not published: exterior height, slide count, axle count, tire specification, awning, refrigerator, air conditioning.

Sourcing rules: methodology.