![]() ![]() The first event was a RWYB in August 2020 and it was followed by similar events in September and October. Thanks to fantastic support and generous donations that target was reached and a new track was laid in June 2020. A target of £100,000 was set for the Save Melbourne Raceway project so that a new two lane 1/8th mile track could be created. Straightliners ran a single lane 1/8th mile RWYB at the newly named Melbourne Raceway in August 2019 and it showed there is still a lot of interest with people wanting to race there again. ![]() Rounds of Straightliners were held at the raceway from 1997 to 2004 then from 2013 until it closed in October 2017. In the late Eighties the runway was re-surfaced and the track was re-opened as New York Raceway. In 1977 the Pennine Drag Racing Club unveiled York Raceway as a new drag racing venue. By the middle of 1946 the airfield was no longer used for flying. In May 1945 the airfield became home to 575 Squadron for a few months when Douglas Dakota’s flew transport flights to and from continental Europe. The airfield hosted 10 Squadron with Handley Page Halifax four-engined heavy bombers and it operated until March 1945 by which time it had lost 109 aircraft on missions. It became a popular diversion for other squadrons returning to Yorkshire in extreme bad weather conditions. Melbourne was one of a few venues equipped with a FIDO fog dispersant system which operated on the main runway. It was first used as a relief landing ground for RAF Leeming but it was then decided to re-develop it as a standard RAF Bomber Command airfield with three concrete runways and three hangars. In late 1940 a grass airfield was created at East Common near Melbourne.
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