BETAFPV Air65 5IN1 1S Racing Brushless Whoop Drone for FPV Indoor Flying

The Air65 is such a fun whoop to fly. I have a bunch of 65mm and 75mm whoops. I always find myself coming back to this one. It's so nimble and fast. Very responsive. Durability is there, for what it is. I have had a fair amount of crashes with it and have had to replace my frame once, but the swap was simple. My only complaint would be that the battery tray is a touch small for all batteries. I did "adjust" it a little with heat so it could accommodate all of my whoop batteries. So keep that in mind that it may be a little tight. As we all know, not all batteries are created equal even when they are the same mAh. This is, easily, one of my favorite whoops in my collection. Significantly more nimble and fun than my Air75. More on par with my Meteor 75 Pro which I always loved. Regardless, fun whoop, and I definitely recommend getting one if you're interested and the price is right.

This Air65 is a blast! It flies great indoors and outdoors as well. Very quick and range is good. Good video quality and ELRS/video range. Flying it is a white knuckle heart pumping experience! It is quite durable too, although my first one got cut short because the VTX antenna got disconnected in a crash which fried the VTX within a few minutes. Amazon replaced it and I added a dab of E6000 near the VTX antenna connector on the new one which has prevented this issue from repeating. I've crashed the replacement tons of times with no problems besides a broken canopy which is a quick fix. You will need more canopies (get the Air II canopy!). The stock canopy has a minimum camera angle of 25 degrees which is hard to fly indoors for beginners. The Air II canopy is lighter, more durable, and goes down to 15 degrees which is perfect. You will also need a few sets of replacement props as they do get bent up pretty quickly when crashing indoors. I haven't had this much fun in a long time!

This little thing is awesome. Really hard to fly indoors with my skill level, so much power. Haven't had any super hard crashes yet but after just one day I've crashed it about 20 times. Hope the new ban doesn't hurt the consumer drone market over our urge to destroy the ability for commercial chinese drones to compete in the us market. I just found this hobby dang it. Update: 1-8-2025. Flying this thing is addicting. I've gotten way better at flying it, so now I've had dozens of very hard crashes at full speed into walls trying to go through narrow gaps. Finally broke the camera mount but not bad enough to switch to the spare it comes with. I ended up buying the air 75 too, the 75 I've broken the frame in two different spots but it's still not bad enough to switch to the ultra light frames I bought. Though ive broken the camera mount bad enough i need to replace it. Very happy with these little things. Wish I would have bought the air75 from Amazon instead of ebay. The air75 had the previous version camera and isn't as good as quality as the newer version that came on the air65 I bought here. These little drones are very durable and only get damaged from very extreme wrecks into hard surfaces.

Just like your other ones doens't fly

Flys great very good beginner drone, it comes in air mode, go to config in betaflight and immediately turn it off it’s bad

Great little drone to rip around the house or even take outdoors on a day with no wind if that's your thing! I've had it for two months and the OSD chip has already failed on it, videos not working really at all. Sure it's taken some hits, but nothing to pop a chip off the board I would think. Careful with product durability.

Update: One year later, I'm addicted to this Air65 cause their so fun and cheap to fix. I've gone through a few of them, usually the RX signal to your controller will fail controller will fail and occasionlly the camera. Now its super important to understand that any tineywhoop you buy will eventually have issues & break (some sooner than others), and between Betafpv, Newbeedrone & happymodel I've had the best luck with the Airt65 aio flight controller this drone comes with. If the RX breaks i just plug in another $20 Nano RX from betafpv or happymodel and its good to go, however then you're adding an extra gram which is a lot when drone is only 17grams. So usually i just replace with a new FC for $59 and its back up in the air. Again this is completely normal for any tinywhoop as they have small parts that do break after crashing into concrete, poles, whatever... But this thing holds up, I've had plenty of full speed crashes into the street and it was just fine! Betafpv just revised the Air frame and canopy for this drone and its much better, at the time of writing this 12-9-25, it still ships with the OG frame (i just bought another one lol), but i just swap them out with the new air frame II that you can buy now. I totally fell in love with the 90's Analog video vibe the camera on these drones have and rarely pick up my digital goggles and drones anymore. Original review: Hey, as a pro FPV pilot who’s built and flown a ton of tinywhoops, I gotta say, the Air65 is legit one of the best out there. It’s fast, super fun for freestyle, and when you crank up that plastic canopy angle, it rips. The BetaFPV CO3 analog camera has a really good image & dynamic range, my favorite compared to the other tiny cameras available. If you’re torn between the Air75 and this Air65, I’d say grab this Air65. Its higher KV motors give it more punch for its size and weight compared to the Air75. I have a couple Air75 drones too and love them, but I upgraded the motors to 30kv. While out the box this 65mm is a freestyle beast and crazy quiet, so you won’t bug anyone while flying. Only downside? The first-gen canopy holding the camera is light but will break after a few solid crashes. No biggie, though—it comes with a spare, and you can grab more universal 25mm canopies anywhere. Or if you have a 3D printer, you can print your own canopies. Keep in mind, a pack of replacement canopies runs about $20, wile a 3D printer starts at $100 for unlimited canopies and all sorts of other parts. Long-term, a printer’s a money-saver for drone stuff and beyond. New to FPV? You’re gonna need analog goggles and an ELRS radio/controller to pair with this drone’s ELRS receiver—hope you’ve got those already. Most importantly, please practice on an FPV simulator before taking this baby out. You don’t wanna yeet it into a tree on your first go. Spend a couple of hours in the sim learning to fly in circles, come back, and land without drama. Once you’ve got that down, you’re good to fly the Air65 IRL. Oh, and download Betaflight Configurator—it’s the app every FPV pilot uses. You’ll need it to set up your radio’s arm and turtle mode switches and tweak the OSD on your goggles. Plus, it’s how you apply that tune I mentioned (not a must). Eventually like any other tinywhoop this thing will break and you'll need to replace a camera or flright controller, so make sure you learn how to solder its super easy!

I believe the negative reviews are user error, to say the least My first rodeo with erls receivers, fpv and betaflight. I had this air 65 bound to a radiomaster pocket in a couple minutes, low cost arris headset found the channel in 30 sec and I am a freaking pilot now 😂 Using 300mah batteries, charged to 4.35v @ 1a (OVONIC 5 packs for $22], starting out, - indoor I get 4:30-5:15. Throttle limited and scaled to 50%, 200 taken out of each of the 3 rates. Outdoor in the winter, at 100% and factory rates, with max angle at 75 degrees, I average 3 min wide open throttle the entire time and coming in early. That same tuneup indoors averages 4:20-4:30, but it’s a lot of power for indoor usage. I prefer to tame down the tune up for indoors (75% scaled throttle and 100 out of each rate) I learned to drive it without the headset for ten battery packs or so, then I’ve been using the head set ever since. Throwing the headset on is an entirely different world, and takes some time getting use to. But I haven’t put it down since. I love how it hits something, rebounds like it was nothing and keeps trucking. I hot swap pack after pack for hours on end. 20 packs strait and it never even gets hot, (unless you let it idle without the props on for an extended period of time) It’s speed, internet says it’ll do 28-29mph, but my dji mini 3 does 35-38mph via its gps and this air 65 race will run out of its life. Overall this was a solid purchase, I’ll likely get another as a spare (I did), as it’s an excellent trainer. I feel like it’s teaching me what I need to get my 5” finished and the general gist on how to fly it. Pictured: I used heat shrink on the adj canopy mount, to re angle the camera farther than the mount allowed. Worked perfect for slowing the copter down so I can learn with it. Hope this helps someone, it did me