and is a manufacturer and distributor of hobby products including radio control airplanes boats cars helicopters and multirotors drones . other products include plastic model kits model rockets model trains slot cars crafts jigsaw puzzles and games . the company has approximately 850 employees worldwide . 1 the company distributes over 150 brands of hobby products including about 30 proprietary product brands . proprietary brands include axial arrma dromida team durango dboots revell monogram top flite great planes aquacraft models flightpower heli max supertigre o donnell fuel duratrax realflight monokote carl goldberg products electrifly coverite dynaflite flyzone muchmore racing lifesource tactic vs tank estes industries proto x trakpower and others . it is the exclusive distributor for futaba radio control products in north and south america for o.s. engines in north america and hpi racing italeri novak electronics and nine eagles in north and south america . company history edit in 1971 tower hobbies was founded by bruce holecek . in 1972 great planes model distributors was founded by don anderson . hobbico was started in 1985 when tower hobbies was combined with great planes model distributors to form hobbico inc. in november 2005 the company became a 100 % employee owned esop employee stock ownership plan . 2 in may 2007 hobbico acquired revell monogram famous maker of revell plastic model kits . 3 in january 2010 hobbico acquired model rocket maker estes industries . 4 in september 2010 hobbico was appointed exclusive distributor for thunder tiger in north and south america . 5 in january 2012 hobbico acquired the brands axial durango arrma and dboots tires . as of january 2015 hobbico no longer distributes thunder tiger products . in 2012 hobbico acquired revell germany located in bunde germany and launched hobbico europe . 6 references edit http www.hobbico.com home.html hobbico s employee stock ownership plan purchases distributor champaign urbana news gazette november 2005 hobbico purchases revell monogram champaign urbana news gazette may 2007 hobbico acquires model rocket maker estes cox champaign urbana news gazette january 2010 thunder tiger appoints hobbico great planes as exclusive distributor for the americas fly rc september 2010 hobbico acquisition of german unit marks expansion into europe champaign urbana news gazette february 2012 v t e radio controlled models types aircraft boat car glider helicopter hovercraft submarine see also remote control vehicle remote control animal external links edit official web site retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hobbico & oldid 719633565 categories model manufacturerscompanies based in champaign county illinoisjigsaw puzzle manufacturers navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages italiano edit links this page was last modified on 10 may 2016 at 21 27 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view