Company Performance Metrics
- Todd Mattson: Vice President of SurfacePast Role: Pro-Line Racing, Owner and CEO
Horizon Hobby develops, markets, and distributes radio control (RC) hobby products; model trains; and a wide range of educational, toy, and other hobby products. The company manufactures parts, batteries, and other accessories for airplanes, multirotors, helicopters, cars and trucks, boats, radios, and cameras.
Horizon Hobby’s proprietary
technologies include SAFE (Sensor Assisted Flight Envelope), AVC (Active Vehicle Control), AS3X (Artificial Stabilization – 3-aXis), Spektrum DSSS, and Bind-N-Fly. Its air brands include Blade, E-flite, HobbyZone, Hangar 9, and ParkZone. Losi, Vaterra, Team Losi Racing, ECX, Dynamite, and Pro Boat are its surface brands. Evolution and ZP are its engine brands and Athearn is its train brand.
Horizon Precision Systems is a part of the company that specializes in the development of small unmanned aerial systems for agricultural use.
Horizon Hobby is based in Champaign, Illinois. It operates global websites in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and Europe, and China and Asia.
