In operations with Southland Corporation who owned the 7-Eleven convenience store business and here waiting to get into the Air Canada overhaul hangar for an over-nighter. When the hangar was built in 1937 the TCA fleet consisted of Lockheed Twins so the door opening provided lots of clearance for those and the later DC-3. When nose-wheel types came along, they had to make the contraption seen attached to the nose leg in order to elevate the front so the tails would fit under the doorway.

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