Small private airfield serving the Pirque valley region.
Location
Pirque, Chile
El Principal Airport (ICAO: SCEP) is a small general aviation airfield located in Pirque, a rural commune in the Maipo Province of the Metropolitan Region of Chile. Situated southeast of Santiago, the airfield primarily serves private and light aircraft operations in this agricultural and wine-producing area.
The facility is modest in scale and does not handle scheduled commercial passenger services. It serves as a local resource for private pilots and general aviation activity in the Andean foothills near the Maipo River valley.
Getting to & from
Access to the airfield is primarily by private vehicle, as Pirque is a rural commune with limited public transport connections to Santiago.
Notable facts
›ICAO code is SCEP; no IATA code is assigned.
›Located in the Pirque commune, part of the Maipo Province in Chile's Metropolitan Region.
›Serves general aviation and private aircraft only; no scheduled commercial services.
›Situated in a valley known for vineyards and agricultural activity southeast of Santiago.
›Elevation and runway details are not widely published in major aviation databases.
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El Principal Airport, is an airstrip in the Pirque commune of the Santiago Metropolitan Region in Chile.