“If we took the time to test every product in here, we wouldn’t sell anything,” Donette Hyslip explains. “We’d be too busy having fun. But the manufacturers have a thorough system for testing, and with YouTube, we can easily show patrons the performance of the various RC items.”
Action Hobby started as The RC Hangar in October of 1991. Donette and her husband Doug were looking for different career paths from their respective architecture and oil patch jobs and starting their own business based around their shared hobby made sense. Actually, Doug’s longtime love of radio-controlled airplanes inspired Donette to get into the hobby as well. “It’s been an interest of ours for many years,” she says. “Doug introduced it to me and now I love it. My favourite plane, for both style and performance, has to be the bi-plane models.”
If you know what you're looking for this is the best RC shop I've come across! Tons of stock at competitive prices! I also don't mind supporting my neighbourhood business.
Iv been dealing with this hobby shop for over 10 years..They offer the best prices in town.If they do not have a part they will in less than a week.If its not satisfactory they have no problem with returns.They offer a lot of good advice .
Best hobby store in Calgary!!! They get your order in every week if it isn’t back ordered , top shelf people Doug and donette! Always give good advice and you do not have to wait long for parts !
Call and ask if they have a certain part in stock , they say yes and they will have it at the counter. Drove an hour and a half in only to find they had held the wrong part for me and they didn't have the part I needed!