Herefordshire teenager becomes UK's youngest pilot

Milo said getting his licence at the age of 17 was "surreal"

BBC Milo in a cockpit — Milo said getting his licence at the age of 17 was "surreal"

A teenager obsessed with planes since a boy has become the UK's youngest pilot.

Milo, from Kington, Herefordshire, started lessons at the age of 14.

He took all his tests before he turned 17, the youngest you can be to hold the licence, so he could collect his licence on his birthday on 31 October.

The Civil Aviation Authority told him he was the youngest person to get his licence in the UK when he went to pick up the document.

Milo used to live near Shobdon Airfield, near Leominster, when younger and said he used to watch planes fly over his house.

The Civil Aviation Authority told Milo he was the youngest person in the UK to get a pilots' licence

Milo with his pilot's licence — The Civil Aviation Authority told Milo he was the youngest person in the UK to get a pilots' licence

He went on his first flight when he was nine and was allowed to hold the controls.

His grandfather, Mick, who paid for the first flight, said: "It was just so obvious that he wanted to do this."

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Five years after that first flight he had his first lesson in a single engine aircraft and began to log his flying hours.

He then transferred to Halfpenny Green Airport, near Stourport, where he completed his training.

Milo said the achievement was surreal.

"It's just a sense of freedom really, you can just take off from this runway, this strip of tarmac and you can just go really wherever you like," he said.