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Old 07-15-2018, 04:25 AM
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Originally Posted by TinyTrains
Great Planes is closing July 19th. GP was the distributor side io Hobbico. Horizon bought Hobbico to get the Tower website and they just added Spektrum radios. Tower is not closing.
...and there ya have it.....



Originally Posted by scale only 4 me
I think the dealer side is closing,, I'm not sure but maybe Tower processed the dealer orders, that's where the confusion lies.

Horizon has made it clear Tower as an internet retailer is staying open,, if not why would they have bothered adding Horizon brands to the Tower site,,
Dealer orders were processed through Great Planes Model Distributing, though AFAIK they were fulfilled from the same warehouses. When I worked for the LHS, GPMD wouldn't even acknowledge that Tower was part of the same company.