What about the housing -do you want TO220 or TO92 or Sot223 or SO8?
And what do you mean commonly availble -look in Farnell online catalogue there is a plenty of them -please tell us where are you trying to find it and what is the reasonable price for you?
TO220 would be ideal. But I can accomodate any other package since the PCB has yet to be designed.
I will prefer if they are avaialable at retail shops like IC-master, Welfare etc in Hong Kong. Since the qty required is quite low, I dont want to ask a distributor for them. A resonable price will be US$0.5 or so.