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- ↑ "Hobbico's Employee Stock Ownership Plan Purchases Distributor" Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette - November 2005
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- ↑ "Hobbico acquires model rocket maker Estes-Cox" Archived January 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine Champaign-Urbana News Gazette - January 2010
- ↑ "Thunder Tiger appoints Hobbico/Great Planes as exclusive distributor for the Americas" Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine Fly RC - September 2010
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