A US Air Force fighter jet intercepted a small general aviation aircraft flying near President Donald Trump’s private golf club on Saturday.

The US military is announcing that an F-16 jet intercepted a plane around 12.30pm flying “without proper clearances or communications” in the temporary flight restriction zone around the president’s Bedminster, New Jersey golf course, where he is spending the weekend.

Continental US North American Aerospace Defense Command says the intercepted aircraft landed at an airport in Pittstown, New Jersey without incident, where local law enforcement met the pilot.

Trump arrived in New Jersey on Friday afternoon and is scheduled to depart for Washington on Sunday.