This is where the "Gimli Glider", an Air Canada Boeing 767, made its famous power-off emergency landing in 1983:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider

Air Canada retired the 767 from its fleet nearly 25 years later, on January 24, 2008, sending it to a bone yard in the Mojave Desert:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2008/01/24/gimli-glider.html