It costs £150 to reserve a registration for a period of 6 months.
Registration Forms and Fees | Aircraft Register | Operations and Safety
Until the process of registrering the NPAS ac begins, this will cost £3,750 every 6 months to prevent someone getting in there first. Then there's the charge per airframe of an out of sequence registration of £300, another £45,000. No doubt the same day service will be used so there's another £2,625.
Peanuts, just cut 25 flying hours somewhere, put it down to initial costs in the set up budget and Bob is the brother of one of your parents