"xyzzy" wrote in message
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wrote:

Aeronca Champ - 1946 7AC NO MEDICAL REQ'D under light sport aircraft
rule - approximately 2550 TT, 550 SMOH, 250 STOH. Email for pictures.

even though this is spam,

Unadulterated, and not even apologetically, SPAM. Though if many of the
users here were selling their birds we would all want to know first

it does bring to mind a question I often have
reading ads like htis. It appears that this plane needed a top overhaul
300 hours after the major. Is that a red flag?

Yes!

or does it indicate
perhaps a former hangar queen that has recently been topped and is now
flying regularly?

Possibly

I guess you'd have to see the overhaul and top
overhaul dates to guess on that one...


Either way extra diligence is called for, and chances of reaching TBO and
beyond are less likely.