A LIGHT aircraft has crashed at the Cotswold Airport near Kemble.

The male pilot, aged 48, was still conscious at the time of the helicopter’s arrival.

Great Western Ambulance crew received a call from the airport at 2.50pm to say an aircraft had gone down.

A light aircraft appeared to have crash-landed, and had suffered subsequent fire damage.

The GWAAC aircraft landed at Kemble Airfield at 3.15pm, at approximately the same time as Wiltshire Air Ambulance.

GWAAC medical staff anaesthetised the patient ahead of transport to Frenchay Hospital in the Wiltshire Air Ambulance aircraft.