Raymond LeDour:
Pan Am Purser
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1959 Purser Ray LeDour poses with two stewardesses at New York Idlewild Airport.
1966, July, Ray LeDour posing by a Pan Am 727-100 aircraft in Moscow. Ray and the crew were in Moscow as part of an advance team preparing for regular Pan Am service to the Russian City that would start in July of 1968.
1963 Stewardess training graduation photo for the class of Andree Jan wife of Ray LeDour.
1970s Ray & Andree Le Dour pose with fellow crew members by a Pan Am Boeing 707 while serving on an Olson Charter. The Olsen Charters were an exclusive round-the-world all first class service.
1971 Ray & Jan LeDour posing for a promotional photo to promote the Olsen Charte Service.
1970s Ray & Andree Le Dour pose with fellow crew members by a Pan Am Boeing 707 while serving on an Olson Charter. The Olsen Charters were an exclusive round-the-world all first class service.
1970s Ray & Andree Le Dour pose with fellow crew members by a Pan Am Boeing 707 while serving on an Olson Charter. The Olsen Charters were an exclusive round-the-world all first class service.
1970s Ray & Andree Le Dour pose with fellow crew members in Casablanca, Morocco by a Pan Am Boeing 707 while serving on an Olson Charter. The Olsen Charters were an exclusive round-the-world all first class service.
1970 Ray LeDour posing by the massive engine of a Pan Am Boeing 747.
1970s Ray & Andree LeDour working the dessert cart on a Pan Am Boeing 707 all first class charter for Olsen Tours.
1980s Purser Ray LeDour posing with fellow crew members in the first class cabin of a Pan Am Lockheed L1011-500. This aircraft only servced in the Pan Am fleet for 6 years.
Ray LeDour Boeing_test_pilots_&_crew_747SP
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Ray LeDour, born in New York and raised in France was hired by Pan Am in the 1950s as a steward. He soon became a Purser and worked at Pan Am until the 1980s. Ray had the good fortune to meet his second wife Andree, also a French native, who joined Pan Am as a flight attendant in the early 1960s.

As a senior Purser, Ray, was involved with many important projects at Pan Am including inaugural flights on the Boeing 707, 747 and 747SP (Special Performance).  Ray also worked as a crew member  on some of Pan Am's  Board of Directors flights. In the mid 1960s he was part of the team that prepared for Pan Am's inaugural service to Moscow in what was then the Soviet Union. In the mid 1970s Ray was part of the Pan Am team that worked with the Boeing Aircraft Company on the design of the 747SP prior to the aircraft joining the Pan Am fleet.

In the early 1970s Pan Am began a series of private charter flights around the world for Olsen Travel. These flights were configured for all first class service and were very exclusive. Ray & Andree would take these trips every year and often flew with the same crews who enjoyed the "off the beaten track" assignments. Thanks to Ray's son, Dean LeDour for sharing these wonderful pictures of Ray, Andree and their many friends.

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