HONORS AND AWARDS
Founder and president of California Charter of the OX5 Club of America
Named Honorary Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots
Received official welcome back to New York City by Mayor Jimmy Walker
Commissioned colonel on the military staff of the governor of Oklahoma, Gov. William H. Murray
Commissioned lieutenant colonel on the military staff of the governor of Texas, Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson
Logged 20,000+ flight hours in twenty years
President of OX5 Club of America (later named “OX5 Aviation Pioneers”)
Named “Honorary Citizen of West Berlin” for beating the speed record for a flight from United States to Berlin
Honoree of parade in Oklahoma after setting transatlantic speed record and recipient of a special honor presented by Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce and Mayor
Honored by Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce and Mayor William Bryce for setting transatlantic speed record
Commissioned a Texas Ranger by Governor Ferguson
Awarded one-of-a-kind U.S. Air Force citation for his service in teaching young pilots how to fly a P-38 during WWII, using the revolutionary “piggyback” method
Recipient of the Navy League Award
Named Honorary Member, U.S. Navy Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Four (VX-4) Naval Air Station Point Mugu, California
Named Honorary Member, U.S. Navy Strike Fighter Squadron 151 (VFA-151), Naval Air Station Miramar
Named Honorary Signal Officer, USS Enterprise (CVN-65)
Received at the White House in the Oval Office by four U.S. presidents: Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Lyndon Baines Johnson
Honored in the International Forest of Friendship, a memorial to the history of aviation and aerospace in Atchison, Kansas, birthplace of Amelia Earhart
Inducted into the Oklahoma Air and Space Hall of Fame for his contributions to aviation
Inducted into the OX5 Aviation Pioneers Hall of Fame
Featured in the “Golden Age of Flight” exhibit (1919 - 1939) at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (1984 –)
Honored with proclamation of “Dorothy and Jimmie Mattern Day”, City of Palm Desert, California (May 16, 1987)
Wings enshrined on the “Famous Fliers Wall” of the Aviator’s Chapel at The Mission Inn in Riverside, California
Named Honorary Pioneer of Alaska, Igloo #4, Fairbanks, Alaska
Named “Honorary Crop Duster”, along with Gen. Jimmy Doolittle, by the California Agricultural Aircraft Association
Received the OX5 Aviation Pioneers’ Distinguished Service Award
Jimmie’s Lockheed 12A was featured on the cover of the Smithsonian 1986 calendar
Featured in the Russian Transpolar Flight and Robert W. Stevens Alaskan Aviation collections at The Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington