The Gimli Glider will be hitting the skies again soon — but now on your luggage.

MotoArt, an American company that makes high-end furniture from old aircraft, is making 10,000 luggage tags out of the plane that made Manitoba history.

The Boeing 767 jet earned its nickname when it was forced to make an emergency landing at a closed air force base in Gimli in 1983.

The tags are made from the fuselage and the wings of the plane, and include the tail number so people can look up its history.

“They’re a little slice of good luck,” said Dave Hall, owner of MotoArt.

The Air Canada Flight 143 was flying at 12,500 metres from Montreal to Edmonton when it ran out of fuel and both engines failed. Luckily, Capt. Robert Pearson was an experienced glider pilot, and was able to glide the plane down to safety. None of the 61 passengers on board were seriously hurt.

Jeff Gardner, a buyer for MotoArt who is originally from Toronto, knew the significance of the plane right away.

“Being Canadian myself, I said, ‘this is a big plane, Canadians need to know about this’ ... I think a lot of Canadians would like a piece of this history,” said Gardner.

The Gimli Glider had been sitting in the Mojave Desert since its retirement in 2008. It was put up for auction in 2013 with an estimated price of $2.75 million, but when bidding only reached $425,000 it remained unsold.

Gardner said they almost lost it, but after six months of negotiating the owners agreed to sell a large portion of the plane to make the tags.

The tags can be ordered from MotoArt’s website, Motoart.com. To celebrate the history of the Gimli Glider, Hall will be streaming a special live broadcast today on the website with Gimli Glider expert and author Wade Nelson.