Dwight Saunders

Flat Top redirects here. For the information about the salvage and repair ship, see Flattop.

Dwight Saunders
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Birth Name	Dwight Saunders
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Callsign	Flat Top
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Introduced	Bastille Day
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Death	Act of Contrition
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Role	Raptor pilot, Battlestar Galactica (deceased)
Rank	Lieutenant
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Portrayed by	Colby Johannson
Dwight Saunders is a Cylon
Dwight Saunders is a Final Five Cylon
Dwight Saunders is a Human/Cylon Hybrid
Dwight Saunders is an Original Series Cylon

Lt. Dwight "Flat Top" Saunders was a young Raptor pilot aboard the Galactica. He had gained some notoriety from undertaking heavy-handed combat landings, for which he was good-naturedly warned about by Kara Thrace while she was acting as CAG during Lee Adama's absence from ship (Bastille Day).

He was killed in a freak hanger bay incident, when a rocket-propelled communications drone broke free from its storage mount, igniting the motors and causing an explosion. At the time of his death, he had just completed his 1,000th shipboard landing (Act of Contrition).

Notes

• Colby Johannson's IMDB entry gives the character's name as "Ryan Cisco". However, at the start of "Act of Contrition" an announcement over the ship's intercom can be heard, in which the character's name is clearly given as "Dwight 'Flat Top' Saunders".

• "Flat top", in this context, likely refers to a hairstyle (it is also a slang term for an aircraft carrier).