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Royal Air Force Acaster Malbis, or more simply RAF Acaster Malbis, is a former Royal Air Force station located 5.9 miles (9.5 km) south of York city centre and 5.7 miles (9.2 km) 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.

The airfield was originally opened as a satellite of RAF Church Fenton before No. 601 Squadron RAF arrived from RAF Duxford with Bell Airacobras staying between January and April 1942 before being re-equipped with Supermarine Spitfire VB's and moving to RAF Digby.[1] Acaster Malbis was then used by No. 21 Group Flying Training Command as a relief landing ground for Airspeed Oxfords of No. 15 (Pilots) Advanced Flying Unit RAF ((P)AFU) from RAF Leconfield, with these leaving in January 1943.[2][3][4]

Then surprising during 1943 the airfield was re-built to the specifications of a heavy bomber station with hard runways and spectacle dispersals being built under the control of No. 4 G