According to the Oregon Journal, his reception was "the greatest Portland has ever accorded anyone." Before the "Lone Eagle" departed two days later, local mechanic Danny Greco fixed a hole in the elevator of the Spirit of St. Louis, apparently town by a stick kicked up during the landing on the Swan Island runway which was unsurfaced and unmarked.

On Lindy's flight south, he dropped leaflets over Eugene and other points reading "Greetings from Lindbergh."