page_title: RAF Acaster Malbis
section_title: Current use
hierarchical_section_title: RAF Acaster Malbis / Current use
caption_attribution_description: English: Disused airfield perimeter track
context_page_description: Royal Air Force Acaste Malbis or more simply RAF Acaster Malbis is a former Royal Air Force station located 5.9 miles south of York city centre and 5.7 miles east of Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England. It was developed from a small grass airfield at the beginning of the Second World War and its main use was as a training base for RAF Bomber Command before being used by RAF Maintenance Command from 1944 until 1957.
context_section_description: The site was decommissioned in 1963 and sold off but by the mid-1970s it was used by light aircraft transporting businessman and jockeys for horse-racing season lasting until the mid-1980s.
  The airfield today still has bits of the old runways and perimeter tracks with hangars and dispersals easy to spot. The site also has two small industrial estates with the first being called "Brockett Industrial Estate" and the second "Waterline Industrial Estate" due to the close distance to the River Ouse.
caption: Disused peritrack at RAF Acaster Malbis
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