Jayco Jay Flight SLX · 2018–2026287BHS

The Jay Flight SLX 287BHS is one of Jayco's Jay Flight SLX travel trailers, the lighter value tier of Jayco’s Jay Flight nameplate. This page covers one model year of it — the 2026 287BHS, 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 2026 model year, which is the measurement that matters for a site pitch as well as for the road.

For the 2026 model year Jayco published a 7,950-pound GVWR on a 6,230-pound dry weight, 1,720 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 745-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 2026 trailer left the factory on ST205/75R14'D' tyres; the load range in that code is part of the axle rating and a replacement set has to match it.

Against the 2025 build of the same floorplan, 5 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 2026 trailer is close to current as of 2026, but section 05 still applies: check it against its build date rather than its model year. Jayco commonly builds a model year well before the calendar year turns, and the tyre date codes have to be read against the build month, not the badge.

How the 287BHS differs from the other 35 Jay Flight SLX floorplans. Most distinctive first. Sibling pages may cover other model years than this one (2018–2026). How these ranks are worked out.

• Dry weight, 6,230 lb: sixth-heaviest of 36, between the 284BHS (6,140 lb) and the 286BHSW (6,235 lb).
• Sleeping capacity, 10: largest of eighteen, level with the 265BHS, 284BHSW and 287BHSW; next are the 265BHSW and 286BHSW (8).
• Dry tongue weight, 745 lb: eighth-heaviest of 36, between the 280FKS (720 lb) and the 287BHSW (770 lb).
• Length, 34 ft 4 in: shared with the 287BHSW; of 36, 31 shorter and three longer, nearest the 280FKS (33 ft 10 in) and the 294QBS (35 ft 5 in).
• Cargo capacity, 1,720 lb: eleventh-largest of 35, between the 242BHS (1,595 lb) and the 265BHSW (1,725 lb).
• Exterior height, 10 ft 5 in: shared with the 265BHSW and 284BHSW; of sixteen, eight lower and five taller, nearest the 284BHS (10 ft 4 in) and the 265BHS and 287BHSW (10 ft 6 in).
• GVWR, 7,950 lb: shared with the 287BHSW; of 36, 27 lower and seven higher, nearest the 265BHS (7,900 lb) and the 284BHS and 284BHSW (8,200 lb).
• Dry tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 12%: shared with the 211MB and 294QBS; of 36, 27 smaller and six larger, nearest the 267BHS (11.9%) and the 324BDS (12.3%).
• Fresh tank, 52 gal: shared with the 211MB, 265BHS and three others; of 35, 25 smaller and four larger, nearest the 212QB, 224BH and two others (48 gal) and the 265BHSW, 284BHSW and two others (76 gal).
• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 21.6%: fourteenth-smallest of 35, between the 294QBS (21.5%) and the 174BH (21.7%).
• Grey tank, 39 gal: shared with the 211MB, 224BH and eleven others; of 36, thirteen smaller and nine larger, nearest the 212QB (33 gal) and the 265BHSW (40 gal).

Next to the 284BHS, the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 287BHS is 90 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 250 lb lower, has a dry tongue weight 85 lb lighter, is 9 in longer and stands 1 in taller; the two publish the same interior height, fresh tank, grey tank and black tank.

Next to the 286BHSW (2023–2026 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 287BHS is 5 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 550 lb lower, has 545 lb less cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 85 lb lighter, is 1 ft longer, stands 3 in lower, has a fresh tank 24 gal smaller, has a grey tank 39 gal smaller and sleeps two more; the two publish the same interior height and black tank.

This floorplan has a published factory record for 6 model years here, 2018 to 2026. The specification does not hold still: GVWR runs from 7,500 lb (2018) to 7,950 lb (2026); dry weight runs from 6,025 lb (2018) to 6,230 lb (2026); dry tongue weight runs from 660 lb (2018) to 755 lb (2025). The published sleeping capacity changes across the years: 8-10 in 2018, 8 - 10 in 2019, 8-10 in 2020–2021, up to 10 in 2025–2026. 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 5 of the published fields between the 2025 and 2026 287BHS. Every figure in both columns is that model year's own factory record — nothing here is carried across from the other year.

A full 52-gallon fresh tank is about 432 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 25% of the 287BHS’s 1,720 lb cargo capacity, leaving 1,288 lb (129 lb per rated berth). Across 34 Jay Flight SLX floorplans the water share runs 18% to 39%, and 17 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Jay Flight SLX 235RKS at 24% and Jay Flight SLX 195RBW at 25%. Your own unit’s figure is on the label inside its entry door (49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.3).