Yeh that’s what I was going todo.
might pump the serial number in here.
My 056 saws have ?7? digits for the early saws but all of the Magnums and Supers have nine digits starting from 114 xxx xxx ending past 12? xxx xxx I bought am first Magnum Here in Nebraska in the fall of 1988. So your Stihl rep must have been discussing the 026 models not all of the Stihl line of saws. Most all of my Supers start with 113 xxx xxx but a 52 mm P/C could have been swapped . The 2 magnum saws I saws I bought new started with 114 and are like 20 or 200 apart from each other.So I called stihl to see if they had any answers. I talked to a gentleman that said due to it being a 9 digit serial number it had to be after 1991 as that is when they went to that. It was not in his database. After 20 minutes he could not tell me any more but guessed probably a 1991 model. Now I am going to look at all my other saws and see what kind of serial numbers they have.