this old axe cp is brushed. I am going to a belt drive conversion and get rid of the old 70 whatever mhz radio and use my dx6i with a AR6115e rx, and a turnigy 20a esc, gy48v gyro, and a digital tail servo. Just want to get alot of hovering and a little ff before I try the Trex 450 sport V2 that I just built. One might say that I am a little skeert of breaking it!