Prior to the general's death, because Claire Chennault had followed the Nationalist regime to Taiwan, there were legal problems over the airline he had founded, with lawsuits tied up in Hong Kong for two years. In the end, he had no choice but to sell his airline to the US Central Intelligence Agency. His wife never knew anything about this matter.
陳納德將軍去世之前，因為從大陸退到台灣，又與大陸因民航機事件在香港纏訟兩年，一手創辦的航空公司困難萬端，最後不得不賣給美國中央情報局。