Jayco Jay Flight SLX · 2019298BH

The Jay Flight SLX 298BH 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 2019 298BH, 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 6,250-pound GVWR on a 5,105-pound dry weight, 1,145 pounds of published cargo capacity, a 555-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.

This is the earliest 298BH model year with a verified factory record in this catalogue. No other model year of the 298BH has a verified factory record in this catalogue yet.

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 298BH differs from the other 35 Jay Flight SLX 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 (2019); each figure is the one its own page prints, so a rank compares pages, not one model year.

• Cargo capacity as a share of GVWR, 18.3%: sixth-smallest of 35, between the 244BHS (18%) and the 290RKS (19.1%).
• Length, 31 ft 11 in: tenth-longest of 36, between the 265RLS (30 ft 11 in) and the 286BHSW (33 ft 4 in).
• Fresh tank, 42 gal: twelfth-smallest of 35, between the 160LK, 160LKW and four others (30 gal) and the 235RKS, 242BHS and five others (44 gal).
• Cargo capacity, 1,145 lb: shared with the 184BSW; of 35, twelve smaller and 21 larger, nearest the 183RBW (1,125 lb) and the 244BHS (1,215 lb).
• Dry weight, 5,105 lb: eighteenth-lightest of 36, between the 264BH (4,615 lb) and the 245RLS (5,220 lb).
• GVWR, 6,250 lb: eighteenth-lowest of 36, between the 211MB and 264BH (6,000 lb) and the 237RBS (6,500 lb).
• Dry tongue weight, 555 lb: eighteenth-heaviest of 36, between the 235RKS (550 lb) and the 245RLS (560 lb).
• Dry tongue weight as a share of dry weight, 10.9%: shared with the 184BSW; of 36, seventeen smaller and seventeen larger, nearest the 160LK, 160LKW and 232RB (10.8%) and the 175RD and 237RBS (11.1%).
• 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 264BH (2018 page), the nearest lighter floorplan by dry weight, the 298BH is 490 lb heavier by dry weight, has a GVWR 250 lb higher, has 240 lb less cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 85 lb heavier, is 2 ft 8 in longer and has a fresh tank 6 gal smaller; the two publish the same interior height and grey tank.

Next to the 245RLS (2018 page), the nearest heavier floorplan by dry weight, the 298BH is 115 lb lighter by dry weight, has a GVWR 750 lb lower, has 635 lb less cargo capacity, has a dry tongue weight 5 lb lighter, is 3 ft 9 in longer and has a fresh tank 2 gal smaller; the two publish the same interior height and grey tank.

2019 is the only model year this catalogue holds a verified factory record for the 298BH. 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 2019 and about no other year.

A full 42-gallon fresh tank is about 350 lb of water (water counts as cargo: 49 CFR 571.110 S9.3.2), 31% of the 298BH’s 1,145 lb cargo capacity, leaving 795 lb (79 lb per rated berth). Across 34 Jay Flight SLX floorplans the water share runs 18% to 39%, and 7 give up more than this one. Nearest on that share: Jay Flight SLX 244BHS at 30% and Jay Flight SLX 212QB at 31%. 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 SLX 267BHS, nearest on the published figures. It differs on 6 of the 8 fields both publish (this plan first): length 31 ft 11 in vs 30 ft 2 in; dry weight 5,105 lb vs 5,600 lb; GVWR 6,250 lb vs 7,000 lb; cargo capacity 1,145 lb vs 1,400 lb; hitch weight 555 lb vs 665 lb; fresh tank 42 gal vs 44 gal. They match on sleeps and grey tank.

Either side of it by GVWR: Jay Flight SLX 264BH is 250 lb lighter (6,000 lb GVWR); Jay Flight SLX 237RBS is 250 lb heavier (6,500 lb GVWR).

All 36 Jay Flight SLX floorplans: Jay Flight SLX line hub.

Against the 298BH: the Jay Feather 18RBF is 50 lb lighter and 9 ft shorter and sleeps 6 fewer; the Jay Flight 210QBW is 50 lb lighter and 6 ft shorter and sleeps 4 fewer; the Trade Wind 23FB is 50 lb heavier and 8 ft shorter.

11 of the 18 fields this catalogue tracks are published for the 298BH. Not published: exterior height, slide count, axle count, tire specification, awning, refrigerator, air conditioning.

Sourcing rules: methodology.