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ERA 5″ Frame Kit O4

ERA 5″ Frame Kit O4

Regular price €119,99 EUR
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⚠️ Before you order - read this +

Frame kit only: Electronics, ELRS antenna holder, and action cam mounts are not included.

O4 Pro with stock plastic housing only. This frame is designed exclusively for the DJI O4 Pro camera with its original plastic housing.

Using our O4 Pro CNC Kit? Your camera is now standard form factor. Buy the original ERA 5" Frame Kit instead.


🇺🇸 US: Ships DDP. All duties and taxes included in shipping.

🌍 Non-EU: Price excludes VAT/tax. Import duties may apply.

Built to Survive.

Tight gap. Full send. You're not thinking about your frame. You're thinking about the line. That's ERA.

This frame has been our bestseller for 1.5 years. The reason is simple: it survives. Crash into concrete, turtle out, keep flying. No walk of shame to retrieve your quad.

This is the O4 Pro Version. Same ERA. Same durability. Built specifically for the DJI O4 Pro camera with stock plastic housing. The larger O4 Pro camera required a redesigned cage and extended bottom plate front. Everything else stays the same.

Crash. Turtle. Fly. Team pilot @nils.vo on ERA.

The Cage: Why Injection-Molded Nylon?

The visual signature of the ERA is also its functional core. We don't use aluminum (too rigid) or 3D printing (too weak) for our camera protection. We invested in high-pressure injection molding because our testing proved it superior to every other method. 3D printing creates layers, microscopic weak points where cracks eventually start. Injection molding creates a solid, uniform polymer structure with equal strength in all directions.

Why nylon? It's the same polymer family used in downhill mountain bike pedals and high-end snowboard bindings. Parts that survive thousands of vibration cycles and high-velocity impacts without snapping. TPU is more elastic, carbon is stiffer and can chip on sharp impacts. Nylon sits in between: structural memory to take a hit and keep your camera exactly where you set it. It absorbs impact energy, flexes, and bounces back. It sacrifices itself so your electronics don't have to.

Beyond protection, this solid cage acts as a structural bridge. Combined with our split deck construction, the entire chassis becomes one unified, stiff block that withstands abuse.

The worst cage we've ever seen. One year of bashing by team pilot @scarce_fpv. Still functional.

Action Camera Mounting System

We fly 20°. That's why it's the stock angle. Five mounts available from 10° to 30° in 5° steps. One M3 screw out, swap the mount, done. The cage stays untouched.

Your FPV camera is separate and fully adjustable from 0° to roughly 40°.

Geometry & Handling

The ERA uses a Compressed-X layout to squeeze the frame footprint to the absolute minimum. This centralization of mass is what makes it feel snappy and locked-in.

Action cam sits close to the propline. This isn't aesthetic, it's weight distribution. The closer to center, the more responsive the quad.

ERA side view with center of gravity marked at propline

One tradeoff: This geometry pushes props further out of your FPV feed compared to True-X, but they're not invisible. We prioritize balance and flight performance over a clean cinematic view. You will see prop edges in your camera.

Construction

Arms lock into the frame with a form fit. No slop, no play. The bottom plate is under tension from the center screw, adding stiffness without weight.

Need to access your stack? Leave the camera attached. Six screws out, top plate off, full access. Nothing to realign when you're done.

Every cage is checked by hand. Heat inserts installed with specialized equipment. No batch leaves without personal QA.

Material Standards

We build what we fly. That means no shortcuts on material grades. T700/T800 carbon mix with chamfered edges where it matters. 12.9 Grade YFS steel screws that don't strip. 7075 aluminum standoffs that don't bend.

What's Different on the O4 Version

  • O4 Nylon Camera Cage: Redesigned for the larger DJI O4 Pro camera. Same injection molding process, same durability.
  • Extended Bottom Plate Front O4: Longer carbon plate to match the O4 cage dimensions.
  • Updated 3D Prints: O4 VTX Dual Antenna Holder, new TPU camera inserts.

What You're Getting

A frame that won't break in normal freestyle. Camera protection that actually protects. Hardware that won't strip, bend, or fail. A build experience that doesn't fight you. A quad that flies like it should.

Developed by pilots who crash, rebuild, and fly the next day. Every detail comes from real sessions, real crashes, real frustration with how things used to work.

What's in the box +

Every part available as a spare in our store.

Injection-molded

Carbon fiber

3D printed

All 3D printed parts available as free STL downloads on the product pages.

Hardware

Full screw list +

15x 8mm M3 Buttonhead 12.9

16x 10mm M3 Buttonhead 12.9

5x 12mm M3 Caphead 12.9

4x 20mm Countersunk V2A

1x 22mm M3 Countersunk

5x M3 Pressnut

4x 18mm M2 Caphead 12.9

4x 7mm M2 Caphead 12.9

4x 6mm M2 Caphead 12.9

4x 4mm M2 Caphead 12.9

4x Lock nut M2

4x 9mm M1.6 Caphead 12.9

Miscellaneous

Specs

What's inside.

Standoffs
7075 Aluminum
Frame geometry
Compressed X
Hardware
12.9 hardened steel
Prop clearance
Fits up to 5.2" props
Wheelbase
225mm
Stack mounting
30.5x30.5mm | 20x20mm
Motor mounting
16x16mm
Camera mounting
Up to 20x20mm
VTX mounting
20x20mm | 25.5x25.5mm

Frame

What makes ERA durable.

Carbon
T700/T800 | Up to 55% stronger than typical FPV frames
Camera cage
Injection-molded nylon | Absorbs impact energy
Battery straps
Nylon-kevlar | Won't snap on impact
LiPo pad
Super sticky | Keeps battery in place
Cable protectors
Injection-molded | Protects motor wires
Action camera angle
Fixed 20° (adjustable via mounts 10-30°) | One M3 screw
Bell protection
Three point motor bell protection
Skids
Injection-molded nylon | Protects arms on landing
Arm swap
One screw arm swap
Action cam swap
One screw action camera swap
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Action Camera Mounts

Available separately for the nylon camera cage.

Available in 10-30° angles.

  • GoPro 9,10,11,12,13
  • GoPro 11 Mini
  • DJI Action 2
  • DJI Action 5 Pro
  • DJI Osmo Nano

If you have a 3D printer, you can download the mounts from the 3D Printed Hardware page for free.

3D Printed Hardware

Accessories

Need some extra chooch?

3D printed accessories available separately for the ERA frame, downloadable for free.

Acessories Page

Assembly Guide

How to build ERA?

Check out down below.

PDF Download

The Making of ERA

Our greatest challenge. One and a half years of development.

Hear our story

Build Tutorial

Customer Reviews

Overall rating: 4.9 / 5 from 153 reviews.

The design and quality of this frame is the best in the industry, which is probably why it’s always sold out. I was fortunate enough to purchase two, and I’m grateful they re-opened sales to the U.S.

Absolut geniales Konzept! Mega Frame, sehr individuell und super Service! Fliegt sich unglaublich gut und ist extrem Stabil! Bin gespannt was noch alles in Zukunft so kommt von FPV Era. Macht weiter so! 👍🏼

The making was extremely easy and everything turned out very, very well, the picture says it all.

excellent product quality and service quality! I recommend!!!

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Macht Spaß

Der beste Frame den ich bis jetzt gebaut habe. Simple zum aufbauen und super stabil. Ich bin absolut begeistert.

Der Frame gefällt mir sehr gut. Leider fliegt die Drohne noch nicht. Ich habe meinen Stack zerstört, und der Ersatz ist momentan nicht lieferbar.

My favorite drone so far. I would give them all away just to have my ERA!

Good frames design and project, improvements Remove the cutting edge from the carbon. ImpulseRC offered a diamond file for the same price. The Ergal washers for the arm screws are missing. These things lowered the score. Otherwise, it's very good, in fact, it flies excellently!

Awsome!

Haven't flown it yet, but the frame itself seems very solid. Love the molded cameracage.

Für mich gibt’s keinen anderen Frame mehr. Freu mich jetzt schon auf meinen vierten, dann mal auf 8s.

Super Frame!

Great quality—you can tell that someone really knows their way around frames and has put a lot of thought into it.

best frame and very durable

Mega Frame 👌🏼 Absolut stabil, bisher nichts vergleichbares gehabt 🤩

Built this one out as a beginner weekend racer, going for strength, control and familiarity rather than outright speed and power. 4s 1300mAh GnB LiHV with and 04 Lite, Geprc F722 45A AIO (via adapter plate) and 2306 2550kv motors. Comes in at 502g including battery using Titanium screws. Really happy with the result, hover at 25, super gripy and agile. Should be really tough at such a low AUW 😀

I absolutely love it, flys fantastic! Built this out as a 6s, 04 Pro build. Came in nice and light at 635g including a Tattu R-Line V6 1480mAh SQ. I thought my bind and fly was good, but this is on another level 💪 Thanks Team!

very tight. used to fly apex . Now transferred to ERA. Like the ideas of design and protection.

Perfect

Fantastic build, The ERA 5 matched with the 1750 kv 2207,5 its fpv motors, proxy props and a velox t-motor stack is beyond anything i built so far and has given me bext level confidence in my flying as a newbee. Topclass german quality-The Porsche of the quads. my next will be the ERA 3,5.

Perfect, beautiful and durable 😎🍻

Sieht wirklich Nice aus und fliegt sich hammer! Hab mich verliebt 😍

Bester Frame den ich je benutzt habe

Very nice

Awesome frame design, It looks great too— especially the cage, looking forward to more colors. The TPU printed parts are of excellent quality.

Top Qualität. Top Flugeigenschaften. Ich bin sehr zufrieden. Deshalb habe ich die Era 5“ und die Mini :-) danke euch und Gruß henry

Love the ERA '04. My only gripe is my kit did not provide nylon lock nuts for the 30x30 stack screws. It came with 4 for the 20x20, but not the 30x30. I have only ran 5 batteries through it and managed to crash into a palm tree and death spiral to the ground from about 50 feet up. Kwad still looks brand new (photos are from after the crashes).

My favourite Drone! Its the bestets of the best 😆

Amazing frame, edge are a bit sharp, i used a file and it was fine. Now time to see how strong it is!

Fliegt fantastisch, super Qualität der Teile!

Best Quality i ever seen.

Ein wahnsinnig toller Frame! So heftig stabil, ich kann es immer noch nicht glauben! Top Wahl für meine erste selbstgebaute FPV Drohne!

It's a tight build, but enough room for 2 capacitors (my FC does not like electrical noise and I bought 2 of them on sale...). I would only wish that I had found this frame earlier, because then I would have chosen different motors as well. This frame convinced me with its camera protection and, of course, the very well-proven Apex design.

"I watched German FPV pilots bando bashing with this frame, and it held up pretty well. This is one of the most simplistic and beautiful frames I've seen, and that’s why I bought it as my first frame. I'm very new to the hobby, but I’ve decided to go with a custom build instead of a BNF. Since I'm new, I’m still expecting a lot of crashes, but hopefully, it survives the learning curve. Wish me luck!"

I literally love this frame i initially asked claude what is the most expensive 5” frame in the world checked it out bought it and then i got recommended the video from nilsVO after pid tune your drones or smth followed the guy then after i watched his other videos i realised i accidentally stumbled upon THE guy stole his pids loved em actually learnt how to tune it a bit since i have silk v6 motors i am in love.. Also i got 4 friends into fpv most started with Pavos by my recommendation but one friend also ordered everything like me he had some issues with delivery but the team solved it thanks itsfpv its really great❤️

Im from the states and we could use more of this amazing ingenuity here. It takes any beating and performs past expectations. For my first quadcopter I am glad I took this route. Inspired by Nils Vo!🫶🏽

Crazy how it flies — indestructible frame.