DJI Matrice 5T 165cc Gas Hybrid Drone Starter Motor | 12V 1.2kW 9T CCW | OE 021000045

Twelve volts. 1.2 kW. Nine teeth. Counter-clockwise, read at the pinion face. Short body, steel shell, alloy nose cap, solenoid sealed against the side.

The direction is the trap. A ten-tooth clockwise motor bolts to the same flange and pushes the engine the wrong way. On a 165cc single you hear it once, then the bendix is gone.

Where it fits. Flange to the engine block. Two 8 mm bolts, one main stud, one trigger spade. The airframe carries none of it.

The airframe side. Matrice 5T is the lightweight flagship DJI announced on 5 November 2026. IP55, 59 minutes of flight, 1K thermal, lidar and millimetre wave sensing. Electric throughout. No flywheel, no ring gear.

What it turns. A small gasoline single in the 165cc range, the kind used on ground power carts and hybrid test benches. That engine has a ring gear. This motor is the thing that spins it.

One number on the label. 021000045. Nothing public indexed it. No dealer list, no cross-reference hit, no auction listing. So the label is the only authority I can offer.

Check before ordering. Four photos of the old unit. Teeth counted by finger. Nose measured with a caliper. Bolt spacing centre to centre. A part that measures close and meshes wrong will take the ring gear with it.

Fitting order. Negative lead off. Trigger spade. Main stud. Flange bolts last, two passes, even torque. No shims to close a gap. Shim thickness changes mesh depth, and mesh depth is what eats teeth.

No crank. Key on, one click, nothing. Battery under load first, then relay, then ground strap. Whine without rotation is the bendix. Grinding straight after a fit is a nose that is not square.

In the box. One motor, terminals capped. Six months against DOA and winding faults. Samples of one ship fine. Twenty pieces starts a run. Fifteen to thirty days.