About Blackwidow Hobbies
Blackwidow Hobbies offers a wide selection of RC Planes, RC Helicopters, Drones, and RC Cars/Trucks, along with industry leading customer service and support.
Blackwidow Sports & Hobbies' mission is a commitment to sharing the fun, camaraderie, and joy of sports and hobbies with everyone. Whether you're new to the hobby or an extreme pilot, basher, or hard-core racer you can rest assured our team of passionate experts and professionals will check, double-check, and triple-check your order. Our goal is to provide the best before and after sale support in the industry.
Our Vision
Share the fun!
Our Mission
We are committed to sharing the fun, camaraderie and joy of sports and hobbies with everyone.
Our Core Values
- Inspire Trust
- Be Committed
- Embrace Change
- Be Accountable
- Strive for Excellence
In May 2004, Kendall and Kelly Bennett started
Blackwidow Hobbies out of their 2-car garage in sunny Chico, California. Kendall, with his passion for RC hobbies, a software engineering degree, and experience in running a successful software development company, decided to start the company of his dreams.
Kelly, coming from an extensive customer service and human resources background, pitched in with helping customers by phone and filling orders. As Kelly took orders by phone, Kendall worked his wizardry with creating a website. The company quickly grew, mostly from word of mouth of RC racers on forums.
The business has had to move to 3 different locations in its first ten years of business so it could continue to grow and succeed.
Blackwidow now serves customers around the world from two 50,000 square foot locations in California and North Carolina.
Blackwidow has an RC track, Silver Dollar RC Raceway, an outdoor state-of-the-art RC raceway located at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in Chico, CA that hosted the 2013 IFMAR Worlds race event.
In Chico, Blackwidow has a distribution center as well as two retail stores:AMain Cycling which is a leading retailer of cycling products and AMain Hobbies which sells RC hobby products.
Checkout this RC Car Action article (PDF)to read more about the history of
Blackwidow, as told by co-founders Kendall and Kelly Bennett.