The group benefited from the inclusion of the US ducting company Flexible Technologies, which it bought for Pounds 33.3m at the end of the previous year.
Boeing Commercial Airplanes President Dean Thornton said the manufacturing facility will manufacture fiberglass and Kevlar ducting and will research automated production of jetliner floor paneling.
Test results that were published, according to Ms. Chelimsky, included successful attacks on missiles under weather conditions promoting "ducting," or the ability of radars to see at unusually long ranges at low altitudes.