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A keychain forged from the original skin of C-FMXC, a Boeing 767-300 Extended Range delivered new to Air Canada in March 1996 and later retrofitted with blended winglets before joining Air Canada Rouge's transatlantic leisure fleet in 2014. Over the following years this aircraft carried passengers across Rouge's international network before being withdrawn from service in 2020, part of the broader retirement of Air Canada's classic 767 fleet.
The Boeing 767 was Boeing's first wide-body twinjet, launched as the 7X7 program in July 1978 and entering service with United Airlines in 1982. The stretched 767-300 followed in 1986, with the extended-range 767-300ER arriving in 1988 to become the most popular variant of the family — the first Boeing wide-body designed around a two-crew digital glass cockpit. C-FMXC, MSN 25588 / line number 606, was delivered new to Air Canada in March 1996. In April 2014 it was retrofitted with blended winglets, and the following month it was transferred to Air Canada Rouge, where it spent the rest of its Air Canada career on the carrier's leisure and transatlantic routes — flying to destinations including Manchester, Glasgow, Dublin, and Fort Lauderdale. The aircraft was withdrawn from service and placed into storage in 2020, part of the broader retirement of Air Canada's classic 767 fleet. This tag is cut from that aircraft's own fuselage skin — a piece of a 24-year career spanning Air Canada's mainline and Rouge liveries.