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Telemetry radios are important wireless communication devices for UAVs, especially in UAVs beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS) operating mode. This work focuses on the UAV identification approach using transient signals from UAV telemetry radios instead of the signals from UAV controllers that the former research work depended on. In our novel UAV Radio Frequency (RF) identification system framework based on telemetry radio signals, the EC\u2212\u03b1 algorithm is optimized to detect the starting point of the UAV transient signal and the detection accuracy at different signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) is evaluated. In the training stage, the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model is trained to extract features from raw I\/Q data of the transient signals with different waveforms. Its architecture and hyperparameters are analyzed and optimized. In the identification stage, the extracted transient signals are clustered through the Self-Organizing Map (SOM) algorithm and the Clustering Signals Joint Identification (CSJI) algorithm is proposed to improve the accuracy of RF fingerprint identification. To evaluate the performance of our proposed approach, we design a testbed, including two UAVs as the flight platform, a Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) as the receiver, and 20 telemetry radios with the same model as targets for identification. Indoor test results show that the optimized identification approach achieves an average accuracy of 92.3% at 30 dB. In comparison, the identification accuracy of SVM and KNN is 69.7% and 74.5%, respectively, at the same SNR condition. 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