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Spirit AeroSystems posts higher profit

Thu May 2, 2013 8:03am EDT

(Reuters) - Aircraft supplier Spirit AeroSystems Holdings Inc (SPR.N) reported a higher quarterly profit on Thursday, as parts deliveries rose.

The maker of fuselage and wing systems said net income came to $81 million, or 57 cents a share, in the first quarter, compared with $74 million, or 52 cents a share, a year earlier.

Revenue increased 14 percent to $1.44 billion. Deliveries of large plane parts rose 9 percent in the quarter, the company said in a statement.

Spirit, which is Boeing Co's (BA.N) biggest supplier of fuselages and wing parts, is benefiting from higher commercial plane production.

(Reporting by Karen Jacobs; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and Gerald E. McCormick)

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